Confederate Artillery Organizations: An Alphabetical Listing of the Officers and Batteries of the Confederacy; 1861–1865 is a remarkable; immensely useful; and exceedingly rare book containing the names of the officers and every Confederate artillery unit. It is so rare that most scholars in the field don’t even know of its existence.It was originally published as simply Confederate Artillery Organizations by the U.S. War Department in 1898; one of Marcus J. Wright’s compilation aids to help assemble and organize the massive publication that would appear as the 128-volume The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880-1901); known to researchers and students alike as simply Official Records.Editor Ray Sibley spent more than a decade researching the thousands of entries; correcting mistakes; and adding many artillery units and additional officers unknown to the original compilers more than a century ago. Sibley utilized archival records; manuscripts; letters; diaries; and other sources to verify the original work; correct mistakes; and add further useful information in the form of hundreds of valuable footnotes.This new updated and easy-to-use reference work sets forth the linage of the Confederate artillery. It lists; in alphabetical order; individual batteries to artillery regiments; the names and alternate names for the batteries and the names of the men who led them. Also included are the dates of acceptance into Confederate service for each unit. Most companies have an annotation that includes an alternate name (if there was one); and the date if a unit disbanded or was merged into another organization. The annotations for officers include date of appointment; date of promotion to a higher grade (if any); date of transfers (if any); date dropped from rolls (if any); and date relieved of command (if any).Confederate Artillery Organizations also contains four rare and hard-to-find lists of Confederate artillery officers: “Memorandum of Artillery Officers; C. S. A.;†“List of Officers Corps of Artillery; C. S. Army; on U.S. Register of 1861;†“Superintendents of Armories;†and “Military Store-Keeper of Ordnance.†These lists illustrate the ranking of each officer in his respective grade. The extensive bibliography prepared by Mr. Sibley is an invaluable guide to Civil War historiography.Scholars; researchers; and students of the Civil War will be thankful Ray Sibley turned his considerable talents to this project. His tireless efforts made sure this rare book got back into print (including all digital formats); and turned what was once a valuable rare work into a reference book that is now both widely available and absolutely indispensable.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. THE SIX MOST CUNNING AND RUTHLESS MEN IN THE WORLDBy Mark EdmondsThis book traces the rise and in some cases the demise of six of the most cunning and ruthless men the world has experienced in recent times. These men became known as the Russian Oligarchs. They carried out the biggest heist in history but not without the assistance of powerful western money interests and the proponents of laissez-fire capitalism such as some of the major international banks; Wall Street’s richest partnerships; the JP Morgan Bank; Goldman Sachs and well known capitalist adventurers such as George Soros.The Oligarchs manipulated the new capitalist system that had been established upon the death throes of the centralised command economy in the Soviet Union. They ruthlessly accumulated massive wealth by grabbing Russia’s biggest factories; oil companies and mines.The author has done a masterful job in revealing the rise of the Oligarchs who shrouded their activities in secrecy as they plundered the Russian estate. The Oligarchs were regarded as the sons of Yeltsin’s unruly capitalism. Yeltsin was a proponent of economic shock therapy with the aim of totally destroying Soviet Communism. He set out to put the enormous industrial wealth of the country into private hands. The Oligarchs utilised Yeltsin’s ambitions to their own enormous advantage. They became members of Yeltsin’s inner circle and manipulated by all available means the massive fire sale of Russia’s state assets to their own advantage. The Oligarchs bankrolled the seriously ill Yeltsin’s election campaign to ensure his hold on power during his dying days in power. They controlled the media and were able to manipulate Yeltsin’s public appearances to disguise his state of health. But at his end Yeltsin had to concede that privatisation had been exploited by the rapacious Oligarchs. Too late; he asked in his farewell speech for the forgiveness of the Russian people.The Oligarchs were instrumental in Putin’s rise from obscurity as a means for their own advancement through the continued exploitation of the privatised state assets. To achieve their declared objective of maintaining the continuity of power after Yeltsin the Oligarchs found their preferred successor in Putin and manipulated his election to power. Putin was destined to clash with the Oligarchs because his personal ideology retained many aspects of the old soviet approach to power. Putin believed that everything had to be governed from above and it was therefore necessary for him to concentrate power; to control the mass media and to rule business. Inevitably Putin soon fell out with the key Oligarchs which meant that the days of glory for the Oligarchs were rapidly drawing to a close. New players were coming; new fortunes were being made and a new Russian leader sat in the Kremlin.Putin had thwarted and betrayed the Oligarchs. He said to the Oligarchs- you were the ones who asked me to be president so how can you complain? The Oligarchs had no answer. Their days of prominence had ended.But large parts of the huge fortunes the Oligarchs and their cohorts had amassed had been salted away to safe havens around the world. Their fall from grace in Russia would curtail their activities in their homeland but would not drastically impact on their wealthy lifestyles. Putin exacted punishment on those of the Oligarchs who resisted him and most are now exiled from Russia and have slipped entirely from public view.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A book worth reading and you see how we are ...By Kjell-Erling K.A book worth reading and you see how we are being governed by gready business men and corupte po. liticians. Add FSB / KGB and you have Russia 2017.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is one of the best (maybe The Best) account of the plunder that 7-8 ...By Vadim KapustinThis is one of the best (maybe The Best) account of the plunder that 7-8 "fast guys" (Berezovski; Khodorkovski; Gusinski; and a few other "ski's") organized in Russia and robbed 150 million population of 80% of the assets the entire country worked to create for 70 years... Hoffman did an exeptional job investigating and uncovering minute details of the robbery - well done!!!
