Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
By Jeffry D. Wert
Da Capo Press, 2018, $30
Jeffry Wert steps behind the curtain to examine the men whose inventions, innovations, and energies fueled the Union war effort. Unlike his full-length studies of James Longstreet, George A. Custer, J.E.B.
