Volume II: More British Imported Arms and Accoutrements. In hopes of impeding a young United States, the British supplied the Confederacy with arms and equipment. This book along with Volume I will be the definitive reference on British arms and accoutrements in Confederate service, containing full and detailed histories of newly discovered imported arms and equipment, plus lost historical details of the companies and individuals that manufactured them, including: Robert Mole & Co, Eley Bros, Francis Preston, and Arthur Warner. There are brand new sections and photographs of knapsacks, waist belts plus all the different types of snake buckles cap pouches, 50 round pouches, ball bags, frogs, oil bottles, sabre bayonets for the P53 Enfield, bayonet scabbards, down to snap caps and tompions. It has brand new unpublished histories on gun makers like C.W. James, Hackett, Pryse and Redman, R & W Aston, R.T. Pritchett, King & Phillips, and London Armoury Co.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Barry, C.L./Burt, D.C.
Title
Suppliers to the Confederacy
Details
English text, 347 bw- and colour photos. 368 pages.
State
new
Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 77 Lower Valley Road PA 19310 Atglen, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
