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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Contributions to the history of the Confederate Ordnance Department . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Artillery. (search)
Artillery.
There were no batteries of serviceable field artillery at any of the Southern arsenals.
A few old iron guns, mounted on Gribeaural carriages, fabricated about the time of the war of 1812, composed nearly the entire park which the Confederate States fell heir to. There were some serviceable batteries belonging to the States, and some which belonged to volunteer companies.
There were neither harness, saddles, bridles, blankets, nor other artillery or cavalry equipments.
Thus to furnish 150,000 men on both sides of the Mississippi, on say the 1st of May, 1861, there were on hand no infantry accoutrements, no cavalry arms or equipments—no artillery and, above all, no ammunition; nothing save small arms, and these almost wholly smooth-bore, altered from flint to percussion.
Let us see what means we had for producing these supplie