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MR. LINCOLN'S HIGH TECH WAR: HOW THE NORTH USED THE TELEGRAPH, RAILROADS, SURVEILLANCE BALLOONS, IRONCLADS, HIGH-POWERED WEAPONS, AND MORE TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Allen
Author's First Name: 
Thomas B.
Illustrator's First Name: 
Roger MacBride
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Allen
Publisher: 
National Geographic Society
Publication Date: 
2009

Photos, engravings, and lively text describe Abraham Lincoln’s enthusiasm for new technology and, chapter by chapter, how he used each invention and the concept of total war, to win America’s Civil War in the 1860s.