Firepower (Phil Leigh's Civil War Stories)

By Philip Leigh

Repeating rifles that could shoot up to seven times faster than the standard muzzleloaders of the American Civil War could have given Northerners the victory in the first year of the four-year war. Even though they were invented and manufactured in New England and thereby a Northern monopoly, few were deployed until the final year of fighting. Manufacturers could not understand Federal bureaucratic resistance and historians have argued over it ever since. That's because they did not know that the Confederate Secret Service was involved. Southerners operated clandestinely to cause the Union Army Ordnance Bureau chief to dismiss the weapons as unreliable "new fangled gimcracks." Firepower tells the story of how they did it and why historians never discovered their methods.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BTKXY34V
• ISBN13: 9798374234626
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"