Gun-cotton advances promise safer, cheaper artillery
The article reviews Baron Lenk’s Vienna gun-cotton process, detailing its purification, coating with soluble glass, and spinning to form grains for varied combustion. It cites Austrian trials showing greater efficiency, reduced barrel wear, easier manufacture, and lower recoil, with potential cost and transport savings.
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Schonbeit
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Austria Commission
Federal View Of Northern War Prospects From The Times
A New York Evening Post reprint argues the Union’s task to quell the rebellion is vast beyond earlier wars. It claims the threefold aim of defending the capital and frontier, blockading coasts, and opening the Mississippi were achieved within twenty-two months, despite blunders and shortages, while urging perseverance and condemning panic among Democrats and Republicans alike.
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Picture of Life in Richmond During the Second War
A caustic editorial portrays Richmond as a melting pot of wartime excess and hardship. It decries merchants and refugees, notes inflated prices and scarce goods, and mocks the city’s social shifts under Confederate control. The piece laments disease, mortality, and the social upheaval that accompanies occupation.
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God Knows
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