Entrepot by Lon Webster

[coastaltrash]

I rarely will brow beat anyone about research material, as I believe most people pick and choose who and what about they research. But I feel every fan of the Civil War, not just reenactors, areshorting themselves if they don't own this book. I had about 10 minutes to paw through it yesterday, and it is amazing. This book will shake up a lot of folks ideas on the uniforms of the Confederate soldiers.

Without a doubt, buy this book.

[Dan Wambaugh]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

Got mine yesterday for my birthday...immediately put it on the top of the reading pile. I can't wait to tear through it!

[Brian Baird]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

I've had my copy for a little over a week and just finished it yesterday. It is a great book. If a person wants to understand how the Confederate government waged war through the vast amount of imported goods then this is must reading.
Brian Baird

[Craig L Barry]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

Ditto on all that. I gave Lon a finished draft of a Peter Tait & Co monograph (40-50 pgs) that David Burt and I have been working on. We came to some interesting conclusions. Lon Webster has it to look over to see if he can connect any more of the dots. We bet that he can.

Nice guy, enjoyed meeting him. I am with Patrick Landrum here, used correctly and understood in context, this will be a book that is referenced for a long time. Just for example, the appendix on the numbers of rifles on board each Blockade Runner and when they arrived, as well as the Peter Tait appendix (for me) is worth the cover price. And there is a lot more on equipment in all theaters. Entrepot is very well researched and cited, this is how a research book is supposed to be written, none of this garbage where a few "Sources" are listed at the end. I do wish the foot notes were at the end of each chapter, but Edinborough (publisher) wanted it with all notes at the end of the book, according to Lon Webster. If you read the footnotes, which is why they are there, that is a lot of flipping back and forth. Not a criticism, just how I like it to be...but I am a magazine guy and this is not a magazine or even a collection of articles like The Civil War Musket. The important thing is that the material is well researched and correctly cited.

[Remember1864]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

Landrum just handed me his new copy. After 30 minutes I've decided this volume is "the" poster-child for a well researched/documented resource. He shall not be getting it back!

[fedhead]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

mine i hope is in the mail, cant wait.

[bhutton]

Re: Entrepot by Lon Webster

Received my copy last week. Vast amount of information on what the Confederate Government received, where , what , how many. Facinating information regarding depatures and blockade running into all major ports.