An excellent reference on British arms and accouterments in the 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 Mode & 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 It has brand new unpublished histories on gun makers like C.W. James, Hackett, Pryse and Redman, R & W Aston, R.T. Pritchett, King & Phillips and London Armoury Co.
Chapters include:
Hard cover, 304 pages, 6" x 9" format, color photos.
By Craig Barry and David Burt.
ISBN 978-0-7643-5076-4
Chapters include:
- Huse Anderson & Bullock: Confederate Purchasing of Arms, Munitions, and Accoutrement in Great Britain, April 1861-December 1864
- Newly Surfaced British Imported Accouterments
- Histories of More Birmingham Gun Makers
- Histories of More London Gun Makers, Individuals, and Companies
- Suppliers/Inventors and More Appurtenances Issued with the Pattern 1853, P56 & P58 Enfield Rifle Muskets
- Enfield rifle implements
- Conclusions, Numbers, and Statistics
Hard cover, 304 pages, 6" x 9" format, color photos.
By Craig Barry and David Burt.
ISBN 978-0-7643-5076-4
