Colonel Burton’s Spiller & Burr Revolver: An Untimely Venture in Confederate Small-Arms Manufacturing (Civil War Georgia)

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Civil war history aficionados might find of interest this account of the upward push and fall of a key Southern factory (lastly in Macon, Georgia), inside the context of the emerging industrialism of the era. The creator’s great, great grandfather was once the superintendent of the Spiller & Burr pistol factory, which manufactured its namesake Colonel Burton’s revolver to equip the Confederate army. Drawing upon both number one and secondary sources, Norman furnishes diagrams of the pistols, contracts, advertisements, and the in poor health-boding fact for the South that only 17% of the firearm production establishments in 1860 were positioned within the states that will secede. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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