Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War

By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialization and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly be labeled both the last great preindustrial war and the first major war of the industrial age. Industrial capacity attained new levels of military significance as transportation improved, but in this, as in many other respects, the Civil War was distinctly transitional. Smoothbore artillery still dominated the battlefield, horse-drawn wagons and pack mules still carried the main logistic burden, seamstresses still outnumbered sewing-machine operators. Astride Two Worlds addresses the various causes and consequences of technological change for the course and outcome of the American Civil War.

• Trial by Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War
• Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
• Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
• Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation
• Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
• The Civil War: A Concise History
• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)
• A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
• The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
• The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army