Название: Philadelphia and the Civil War:: Arsenal of the Union
Автор: Anthony Waskie
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1609490118
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Philadelphia was the second-largest city in the country and had the industrial might to earn the title Arsenal of the Union."? With Pennsylvania's anthracite coal, the city mills forged steel into arms, and a vast network of rails carried the ammunition and other manufactured goods to the troops.