David C Burt

BIOGRAPHIES David Charles Burt and Craig Lee Barry are from opposite sides of the Atlantic. They had both become interested in how British companies supplied the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Separately, they started to research the various firms involved, the arms, equipage and uniforms supplied by these companies. David published his first book Major Caleb Huse C.S.A. & S Isaac Campbell & Co in March 2009, which reached No 1 on the online retailer Amazon charts. After the publication of this book, David and Craig, author of The Civil War Musket: A Handbook for Historical Accuracy - Lock, Stock and Barrel and Editor of the Watchdog magazine (A monthly Magazine in the Civil War News Newspaper), got together to write their first joint title: The Civil War Musket: J.E. Barnett & Sons. The pair then wrote the first in the Supplier series: Supplier to the Confederacy; S, Isaac Campbell & Co, London, a major reworking of David's original book, with Supplier to the Confederacy: Peter Tait & Co Limerick being the third book the pair have co- written together and the second in the Supplier series. In November 2011 David and Craig achieved a major breakthrough when they signed with Schiffer Books of Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, to publish their third book in the "Supplier" Series entitled "Suppliers to the Confederacy: British Imported Arms and Accoutrements" which will be published in October 2012. This title explores all the major gun makers from London and Birmingham, as well as detals of all the accoutrements that were sent to the Confederacy alongside the famed P1853 Enfield rifle musket. David lives in Congleton, Cheshire, England. Craig lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.A.