by Earl J. Hess (Author)
Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around technology, and morality. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that considers the moral stigma most contemporaries attached to this new weapon of war.
Author Biography
Earl J. Hess, Emeritus, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, is the author or editor of twenty-six books on Civil War history. They include Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), and Animal Histories of the Civil War Era (Louisiana State University Press, 2022). Hess's study of Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), received the Tom Watson Brown Book Award of the Society of Civil War Historians.