Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines

Jack Bell began collecting Civil War artillery projectiles at the age of ten, when the legendary Tom Dickey took him hunting for shells near Kennesaw Mountain. He has collected and studied Civil War explosive ordnance since then. After earning degrees in marketing and political science from Northwestern University and a degree in international relations from the University of South Carolina, he went on to serve in the Marine Corps as a captain in Vietnam, Okinawa, and the Caribbean. Over the years, Bell has visited almost every site where major Civil War battles were fought using heavy explosive ordnance. He has photographed collections of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, the National Park Service, the Atlanta History Center, the Citadel, the North Carolina Department of Archives at Fort Fisher, and twenty-six private collections. Bell and his wife Gin live in Menlo Park, California, and Annapolis, MarylandJack Bell is the author of 'Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines', published 2003 under ISBN 9781574411638 and ISBN 1574411632.