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Satia, Priya. "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution". Stanford University Press, 2019.
Miller, H. T. “Small Arms Procurement in the Civil War.” The Military Engineer 25, no. 139 (1933).
Bilby, Joseph G. “Civil War Revolvers.” On Point 22, no. 1 (2016).
Gordon, Robert B. “Material Evidence of the Manufacturing Methods Used in ‘Armory Practice.’” IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 14, no. 1 (1988).
Wilkinson-Latham, Robert. Uniforms and Weapons of the Crimean War (Careers Series). Batsford, 1980.
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