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The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Artillery review. (search)
in general use among the rebel troops are old United States muskets, altered from flintlocks into percussion, and rifled. There is a factory of small firearms at Richmond, and one at Fayette, North Carolina. in the former they rifle the smooth bores, and also rifle cannon. The Tredegar Iron Works, at Richmond, are said to turn out tight small and four large rifled cannon daily. There are also cannon foundries at Atlanta, Ga., the iron being procured from Dalton, near by; two on the Cumberland river, right in the midst of the iron country; two at Memphis, and one at New Orleans. Powder is manufactured at Little Rock, Ark., where sulphur is found in large quantities. Gun carriages and forges are made at Nashville and at Atlanta, Georgia. Hotels. The hotels are doing a thriving business, as I said. They have increased their rates for board from twenty-five to fifty per cent.--The Exchange and Ballard's — which constitute really but one establishment — charge two and a hal