New Must Have CS Book

[Pritchett Ball]

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Appendix 1; British Knapsacks and Mess Tins in the Cis-Mississippi

Lon states that the catalyst that resulted in this book was the interest in learning more about imported British Knapsacks into the Confederacy...


Lon must have been like the proverbial fellow, waiting by the Ocean, with (in Lon’s case) a British Mess Tin in hand, waiting for it to be filled…gets swamped by a huge Tidal Wave from a sea of information!

Lon has info that every WBTS Living Historian, Reenactor/Enthusiast would benefit from. Lon’s book gives specific sizes to British Knapsacks produced, gives accounts of the age old fight about the battle between having a knapsack, vs. blanket roll, the size of a Confederate produced ground/oil cloth…

I have not even skimmed the surface yet!

This book is something you will keep for a lifetime, and refer back to time & time again.



Kevin Dally

[traveler1863]

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Sir,

Mr. Webster's book is a must. Growing up in Wilmington, I am very interested in the chapter on The Port City. I have been interested in the amount of materials that made it through the blockade. They were the life blood of the Confederacy. The blockading crews were daring in their endeavors. One interesting item was the amount and diversity of goods that the blockade runner captains would present to Daisy Lamb when they cam e to dinner.

Gordon Morey

[Coatsy]

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Lon was at the Nashville Show this weekend. Landrum shamed me by getting a copy before I could. Lon was nice enough to talk to me a little bit about the book breakdown. This book is about more than just imports. This is an outstanding resource dealing with Confederate supply, and I for one am glad I got it. Check out the weapon issuance examples when you get a copy...... "Sporting Rifles of various caliber"

Good to see Joe Walker and Craig Berry at the table too.

[LWebster]

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Both Amazon and B&N have temporarily run out of the book and have defaulted to associated independent book shops for copies. This is very gratifying in one sense, but it is also frustrating for purchasers.

The book is still very much available, directly from the publisher:

http://www.edinborough.com/Purchase.html

I truly appreciate the kind words.

LWebster

[FloridaConscript]

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The wife ordered this gem for me for christmas ad I am just now starting to get into it. For some reason, I always start with the appendix! Tons of good info in hear so far. The cotton duck knapsack being issued out of Atlanta is an intriguing item that seems to be showing up more and more often. Many thanks Lon for all the hard work.

[Craig L Barry]

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The new version with about twice as much content published by Bright Pen (UK) is now available through Amazon and the other online
book retailers both in soft cover and e-book versions. It has been approved for Eastern National battlefield park bookstores, so it will
probably be available there in a few weeks, too. Here is the press release:

SUPPLIER TO THE CONFEDERACY, S. ISAAC, CAMPBELL & CO. LONDON
By
Craig L. Barry and David C. Burt

The story of Jewish entrepreneur Samuel Isaac and his founding of the commission house of S. Isaac, Campbell & Co in London in the 1850s.

Supplier to the Confederacy follows the firm of S.Isaac, Campbell & Co. through its inception to setting up one of the first shoe factories in England. The firm went on to become the main supplier of military goods to the British army but was later banned by army authorities for alleged corruption at the British army’s Weedon Bec storehouse in Northamptonshire.

Into all this in 1861, came one Captain Caleb Huse, Chief Purchasing Agent for the newly formed Ordnance Department for the Confederate States Government at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Huse quickly started to buy the enormous amounts of war materiel through S. Isaac, Campbell & Co, which was desperately needed by the largely agrarian Southern states in the struggle with the industrialised North.

This is the story of Huse’s dealings with S. Isaac, Campbell & Co and of the alleged corruption charges brought against Huse and SIC & Co by fellow Southern agents that would virtually bring all arms procurement to a stop at the time the Confederacy needed them most.

Also included are newly uncovered letters and documents relating to the Weedon Bec scandal, as well as original SIC&Co invoices for war materiel to the Confederate States.

About the Authors:

David Charles Burt and Craig Lee Barry are from opposite sides of the Atlantic. They had both become interested in how British companies supplied the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Separately, they started to research the various firms involved, the arms, equipage and uniforms supplied by these companies.

David published his first book Major Caleb Huse C.S.A. & S Isaac Campbell & Co in March 2009, which reached No 1 on the online retailer Amazon charts. After the publication of this book, David and Craig, author of The Civil War Musket: A Handbook for Historical Accuracy – Lock, Stock and Barrel got together to write The Civil War Musket: J.E. Barnett & Sons.

Supplier to the Confederacy: S, Isaac Campbell & Co, London is the revised and expanded second edition of David’s first book Major Caleb Huse C.S.A. & S Isaac Campbell & Co. This is the second book the pair have co- written together.

David lives in Congleton, Cheshire, England. Craig lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.A.


ISBN: 978 – 07552 – 0623 – 0
Publisher: Bright Pen

Price £9.99 (UK) $15.50 (US)
Also available as a downloadable eBook

Available through www.authorsonline.co.uk For wholesale orders call Gaynor Johnson on: (0044) 01633 676629, or email gaynorj@authorsonline.co.uk
Also available from: www.amazon.com www.amazon.co.uk and all good online retailers or your local bookshop.

For a signed copy or interview requests email David at: dburt67@tiscali.co.uk or call: 078752 88305

See: Burt and Barry Suppliers to the Confederacy Publications on Facebook.

[plankholder]

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You gonna sign mine for me at the Stones River LH? The wife has already ordered mine, it was at the top of my Christmas list.

[Craig L Barry]

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I think that can probably be arranged easily enough.