LEADER 03277nam 22006014a 450 001 9910777870103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-43443-1 010 $a9786613434432 010 $a1-60473-072-2 010 $a1-4294-6049-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471094 035 $a(EBL)840352 035 $a(OCoLC)780425779 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139825 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064474 035 $a(PQKB)10359917 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL840352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10157904 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL343443 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC840352 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471094 100 $a20020116d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConfederate industry$b[electronic resource] $emanufacturers and quartermasters in the Civil War /$fHarold S. Wilson 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (435 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57806-817-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [377]-394) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aC. 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 330 $aBy 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 606 $aManufacturing industries$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aQuartermasters 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 615 0$aManufacturing industries$xHistory 615 0$aQuartermasters. 676 $a973.7/1 700 $aWilson$b Harold S.$f1935-$01511962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777870103321 996 $aConfederate industry$93745580 997 $aUNINA