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| Rifles. | Muskets. |
| At Richmond, Va. (about) | 4,000 | |
| Fayetteville Arsenal, North Carolina (about) | 2,000 | 25,000 |
| Charleston Arsenal, South Carolina (about) | 2,000 | 20,000 |
| Augusta Arsenal, Georgia (about) | 3,000 | 28,000 |
| Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama | 2,000 | 20,000 |
| Baton Rouge Arsenal, Louisiana | 2,000 | 27,000 |
| —– | —– |
| 15,000 | 120,000 |
There were at
Richmond about 60, 000 old, worthless flint muskets, and at
Baton Rouge about 10,000 old
Hall's rifles and carbines.
Besides the foregoing, there were at
Little Rock, Ark., a few thousand stands, and some few at the
Texas arsenals, increasing the aggregate of serviceable arms to, say, 143,000.
To these must be added the arms owned by the several States and by military organizations throughout the country, giving, say, 150,000 in all for the use of the armies of the
Confederacy.
The rifles were of the calibre 54, known as Mississippi rifles, except those at
Richmond, taken from
Harper's Ferry, which were calibre 58; the muskets were the old flint-lock, calibre 69, altered to percussion.
Of sabres there were a few boxes at each arsenal, and some short artillery swords.
A few hundred holster pistols were scattered here and there.
There were no revolvers.
