04075nam 22007335 450 991029944560332120200706105203.03-319-14508-810.1007/978-3-319-14508-2(CKB)3710000000359155(EBL)1998481(OCoLC)903929889(SSID)ssj0001452046(PQKBManifestationID)11789707(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001452046(PQKBWorkID)11478909(PQKB)10415134(DE-He213)978-3-319-14508-2(MiAaPQ)EBC1998481(PPN)184494478(EXLCZ)99371000000035915520150221d2015 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArming the Confederacy How Virginia’s Minerals Forged the Rebel War Machine /by Robert C. Whisonant1st ed. 2015.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2015.1 online resource (211 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-319-14507-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Minerals and Warfare -- Terrain and a Tale of Two Nations -- The Land They Fought For -- Niter and Gunpowder -- Bullets, Firearms, and Colonel Chiswell’s Mines -- The Lead Mines Under Attack -- The Saltville Salt Works -- Two Battles and a Massacre -- Iron, Civilizations, and War -- Virginia’s Iron Industry in the Civil War -- Coal, Confederate Mines, and the CSS Virginia -- Confederate Railroads -- Union Raiders in the New River Valley -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field. This story of the links between minerals, topography, and the war in western Virginia now comes to light in a way that enhances our understanding of America’s greatest trial. Five mineral products – niter, lead, salt, iron, and coal – were absolutely essential to wage war in the 1860s. For the armies of the South, those resources were concentrated in the remote Appalachian highlands of southwestern Virginia. From the beginning of the war, the Union knew that the key to victory was the destruction or occupation of the mines, furnaces, and forges located there, as well as the railroad that moved the resources to where they were desperately needed. To achieve this, Federal forces repeatedly advanced into the treacherous mountainous terrain to fight some of the most savage battles of the War.EarthGeologyMineral resourcesHistorical geologyHistoryCulture—Study and teachingPopular Earth Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q22000Mineral Resourceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G38010Historical Geologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G17020History, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/700000Regional and Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000Earth.Geology.Mineral resources.Historical geology.History.Culture—Study and teaching.Popular Earth Science.Mineral Resources.Historical Geology.History, general.Regional and Cultural Studies.553.09755Whisonant Robert Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1058266BOOK9910299445603321Arming the Confederacy2498457UNINA