America's Civil War

Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

By Jeffry D. Wert

Da Capo Press, 2018, $30

Jeffry Wert steps behind the curtain to examine the men whose inventions, innovations, and energies fueled the Union war effort. Unlike his full-length studies of James Longstreet, George A. Custer, J.E.B.

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