Title: Confederate torpedoes
Description: "During the Civil War, the Confederacy developed "torpedoes." Includes General Gabriel J. Rains' (Confederate Torpedo Bureau director), manual for both land and water mines. Captain Peter S. Michie in Notes Explaining Rebel Torpedoes and Ordnance documents from the Federal perspective. Detailed accounting of vessels sunk or damaged by Confederate torpedoes and numerous photographs of existing specimens are included"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Equipment and supplies, Mines (Military explosives), Submarine mines, Confederate Naval operations, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, naval operations
Places: Confederate States of America, United States
People: Peter Smith Michie (1839-1901), Gabriel James Rains (1803-1881)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865