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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
re the Tredegar works, near Richmond; at this establishment cannon and projectiles of every calibre were manufactured. Brass guns were rare and greatly in demand; cities and churches contributed their bells; private houses were stripped of every article of copper they possessed, from a boilingpot to a brass candlestick. Cannon from England were also imported to a considerable extent. A few Armstrong guns which had run the blockade were used in arming the batteries along the coast; and Mr. Whitworth manufactured a large number of his beautiful hexagonal guns of cast steel for the Confederates, pretending that he was executing an order for the emperor of China, so as not to excite the suspicions of the Federal cruisers. The greatest part of the artillery which the Confederates received from Europe, however, issued from the workshops of Captain Blakeley, of whom we shall speak presently. Some time after, at the conclusion of the war, there were still to be seen in those establishm