Rare 1862 Civil War Union Naval Ordnance & Gunnery Illustrated Book ~ James Ward
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ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION in NAVAL ORDNANCE and GUNNERYBy James H. Ward, Commander U. S. Navy, 1862 D. VAN NOSTRAND, NY PublisherScarce title that contains a wealth of information from the civil war artillery front, this book covers vintage equipment and their use. Some of the chapters include: Recapitulation, Experiments, Construction and preservation of guns, Gunpowder, Accuracy of a shots flight, Loading and Weights, Pointing and Targeting, Mounting and equipping and much, much more. Includes publishers catalog in the back. Very rare title, 209 pages in very good condition (front blank fly page - missing top 1/5 section), buyer to pay $4 shipping, no reserve!In 1860, Ward served at the New York Navy Yard, where he wrote a popular treatise on steam engineering , entitled Steam for the Million. In the spring of 1861, with the Southern states leaving the Union and Confederate forces mounting a siege at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Gideon Welles summoned Ward to Washington to plan for a relief expedition for Sumter. Ward volunteered to lead it but opposition, notably from General Winfield Scott (who perceived it as being futile), forced cancellation of the plans. Ward pressed for front line service, proposing that a "flying squadron" be established in the Chesapeake Bay for use against Confederate naval and land forces threatening that
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