• ** Back in Stock!** American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide Third Edition, edited by Mark Berhow (2015), CDSG Press reference manual for the interpretation of the historical remains and documents of US harbor defenses.
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  • CDSG Publications Collection

    The electronic versions of the entire set of the back issues of the CDSG News/Journal/Newsletter
  • Document set includes scanned copies of a variety of archival material for $50.00 This collection is available either as a download from the CDSG storage site (link sent after purchase) or USB drive sent by mail. The CDSG Document Collection contains the Annual Reports of the Chief of Coast Artillery (1901-1937); the Annual Reports of the Chief of Engineers (1866-1922); Army Directories (1893-1940); various official board reports (1886-1946); Board of Engineers Proceedings (1887-1905); several textbooks; a number of coast artillery reports; coast artillery war-game manuals; coast artillery Tables of Organization and Equipment (TOEs), The Histories of the Eastern, Southern, and Western Defense Commands (1945); army coast artillery field and training manuals (FMs  & TMs); the gun and carriage record cards; coast artillery related Ordnance Department Documents (ODDs); coast artillery army Training Manuals; coast artillery army Training Regulations (1905-1930); coast artillery army unit history record cards and documents; the Office of the Chief of Engineers Engineer Board Mimeograph series (1895 -1923); PDF books, unit histories from Army files, Army directories, and various other documents.
    • ARMY MANUALS INCLUDES
      • Army Extension Course, Special Text No. 39, The Harbor Defense Command, 1939 Edition
      • Army Extension Course, Special Text No. 27, Coast Artillery Ammunition, 1935 Edition
      • War Department, Coast Artillery Drill Regulations, US Army, 1914, 228 pages
      • War Department, Coast Artillery Material Drill & Target Practice, fourth revision, 1917
      • War Department, Manual for Submarine Mining, Edition of 1912, 150 pages
      • Seacoast & Harbor Defense Carriage Descriptions (1920s?)
      • Mobile Carriage Descriptions (1920s?)
      • Damage Tables Seacoast Artillery against Naval Targets, 1942
      • Training Regulations Coast Artillery Corps (1920s)
      • Field Manuals 1940s Coast Artillery
      • Ordnance Department Documents (Instructions for mounting, using and caring for)
      • Training Manuals (1940s)
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    Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction by Col. Eben E. Winslow (1920) CDSG Press hard cover reprint of text with 29 plates included as a separate paperback volume Winslow’s book is the most comprehensive reference work on the construction techniques and gun emplacement details of Endicott and Taft period seacoast fortifications. The 29 drawings that accompanied the original monograph have been slightly reduced and are bound together as a separate soft cover volume.
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  • American Coast Artillery Matérial, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, ODD #2042 (1922), CDSG Press hardcover reprint This reference work on coast artillery ordnance material was originally published by the Office of the Chief of Ordnance in June 1922 as Ordnance Department Document No. 2042.
  • The Endicott and Taft Board Reports, 2007 CDSG reprint of the 1886, 1906, and 1915 Fortification Board reports, CDSG Press reprint hardcover, with the Endicott Report plates included as a separate bound paperback.
  • 2024 CDSG Conference Add on Tampa Florida May 10-11
  • Seacoast Artillery Weapons (Technical Manual 9-210, 13 Oct. 1944) by the War Department CDSG Press hard cover reprint of technical manual on the principal types of US Army coast artillery used in WWII. Paperback.