Scott Hippensteel

Books by Scott Hippensteel

Myths of the Civil War

The Fact, Fiction, and Science behind the Civil War's Most-Told Stories

In the spirit of Robert Adair’s cult classic The Physics of Baseball, here is a book that tackles the long-cherished myths of Civil War history—and ultimately shatters them, based on physics and mathematics. At what range was a Civil War sniper lethal? Did bullets ever “rain like hail”? Could one...
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