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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777870103321

Autore

Wilson Harold S. <1935->

Titolo

Confederate industry [[electronic resource] ] : manufacturers and quartermasters in the Civil War / / Harold S. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2002

ISBN

1-283-43443-1

9786613434432

1-60473-072-2

1-4294-6049-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/1

Soggetti

Manufacturing industries - United States - History - 19th century

Quartermasters

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Southern Manufacturing circa 1860; 1. The Advent of Abraham C. Myers, Quartermaster General of the Confederacy; 2. The Reign of Quartermasters; 3. Confederate Mobilization; 4. Factories under Siege; 5. The Bureau of Foreign Supplies and the Crenshaw Line; 6. The Coming of Total War; 7. The Tortuous Course Toward Economic Reconstruction; 8. Forging the New South; Abbreviations; Appendixes; A. Abstract of Confederate Census of Major Lower South Factories- May 1864; B. Abstract of Confederate Census of North Carolina Factories-November 1864

C. Statistical Survey of Workers in Ten Savannah River Mills- June 1864-June 1865D. Assets of Selected Mills in the Summer of 1865; Notes; Bibliographical Essay on Selected Sources; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph lines, and institutions of higher learning. Only the major European powers and the North had more cotton and woolen spindles. This book examines the Confederate military's program to



govern this prosperous industrial base by a quartermaster system. By commandeering more than half the South's produced goods for the military, the quartermaster general, in a drift toward socialism, appropriated hundreds of mills and controlled the flow of