Reviews for The Botetourt artillery

The average rating for The Botetourt artillery based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-21 00:00:00 Robert Morgan Volume 13 - The Statistical Records of the Armies of the United States The Scribners History of the Civil War (1883) Much of the material in this volume is of little interest to the modern reader but there are still some gems. Most deaths in the field were not due to battle but to prolonged exposure to the elements in all types of weather and/or poor diet. More horses and mules were killed in the war than people (600,000 men vs. over a million horses and mules). * * * This book is part of the Scribners's series of 16 volumes on the Civil War on land and at sea, published in 1882-3. It took congress twenty years to finally allocate funds to have all official documents and battlefield communications assembled and sorted through. Americans could at last have an inside look at who actually said or did what, and when. While that massive project was still underway, Scribners persuaded highly qualified people - most of them participants -- to write the individual volumes of this history in light of the new information. There is an immediacy to these brisk and readable accounts, making them a very good starting point for someone who wishes to study the conflict. After reading these, you can pick up any modern volume on any aspect of the war with good contextual grasp of how it fits into the overall picture. Where these volumes fall short is maps, which are essential but inadequate because the publisher wanted to keep the price of each volume to one dollar – within reach of the ordinary person. The publisher advised readers to keep an atlas handy. Fortunately, today you can google “images” for good maps of almost anything under discussion. For the three naval volumes, you can also google images of the specific ships, or types of ships, under discussion.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-24 00:00:00 Robbie Grant This is a collection of various statical data pertaining to the American Civil War. It is a good reference work. I use it to flush out my study of the Civil War.