[Item #68513] Ploughshares Into Swords Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance. Frank E. Vandiver.

Ploughshares Into Swords Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance

Hardcover, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1952. First Edition. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. Inscribed & dated by Author on front endpaper. Gorgas was Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate Army charged with supplying an almost completely agrarian nation with the arms, ammunition, and industries necessary to keep its armies in the field against a mighty northern industrial foe. Very Good Plus: front endpaper creased. Good dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover: small tears at corners, at spine ends and along top back edge. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Signed by Author. [Item #68513]

Price: $140.00

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