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Halfway House (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
ources for the year ending November 30th, 1864, were: Rifles, calibre 5812,778 Carbines5,354 Pistols2,353 There is machinery enough under the control of this Bureau to manufacture 55,000 rifles and carbines per annum, provided a sufficient mechanical force be employed, as follows: Richmond Armory25,000rifles, with450workmen. Fayetteville Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Columbia, S. C. Armory4,000rifles, with125workmen. Athens, Ga. Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Tallassee, Ala. Armory6,000carbines,150workmen.      55,000 1,225  The proviso is the workmen, and these must be permanently attached to those establishments and excused from the performance of all military duty, except, perhaps, local guard duty. The number actually employed is about 425, about 300 less than were employed say twelve months since. Defection from service in the local forces and losses on the battle-field have thus greatly reduced our force of workmen. By General Order No. 82, <
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
in no way liable to be interfered with by any one. 3d. That a minimum supply of food and clothing should be furnished by the Subsistence and Quartermaster Departments. The impediments to the importation of such supplies as must still come from abroad, must be overcome, as they arise, by individual energy and resource. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) J. Gorgas, Brigadier-General, Chief of Ordnance. Annual report no. 1. [Copy.] Ordnance office, Richmond, Va., October 13, 1864. Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War: I have the honor to present the following general view of the operations of my department for the year ending September 30, and of its present condition and prospects. I refer briefly to the more important branches of supply: Small Arms--The chief supply has been from importations, which, since the loss of the vessels belonging to this Bureau, have been very light, not to exceed say on this side of the Mississippi 30,000 duri
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
Resources of the Confederacy in February, 1865. The following papers need no further explanation than that contained in Colonel Kean's letter. Their importance and value will be appreciated by all seekers after historic truth. We will continue their publication until all of them have been published, having regard to convenience in printing rather than to the order in which the papers are named in the list: Letter from Colonel R. G. H. Kean. Lynchburg, November 15, 1873. General Jubal A. Early, President Southern Historical Society: My Dear Sir — I herewith deliver to your society, through you, the accompanying papers, which possess considerable historical interest, and ought, I think, to be in the possession of your society. The history of them is as follows: When General J. C. Breckinridge took charge of the War Office as Secretary of War, succeeding Honorable James A. Seddon on the 7th February, 1865, his first steps, taken at the suggestion of Judge John A. Cam
Athens (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
d made up of parts derived from capture and other sources for the year ending November 30th, 1864, were: Rifles, calibre 5812,778 Carbines5,354 Pistols2,353 There is machinery enough under the control of this Bureau to manufacture 55,000 rifles and carbines per annum, provided a sufficient mechanical force be employed, as follows: Richmond Armory25,000rifles, with450workmen. Fayetteville Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Columbia, S. C. Armory4,000rifles, with125workmen. Athens, Ga. Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Tallassee, Ala. Armory6,000carbines,150workmen.      55,000 1,225  The proviso is the workmen, and these must be permanently attached to those establishments and excused from the performance of all military duty, except, perhaps, local guard duty. The number actually employed is about 425, about 300 less than were employed say twelve months since. Defection from service in the local forces and losses on the battle-field have thus greatly reduc<
Richmond Mills (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
have chiefly to rely on importations, although pistols are being made at several points with success. Want of workmen alone prevents additional results. Sabres can be produced in sufficient numbers and of pretty good quality by the detail of a very few workmen from the field. 2d. As to powder-- The manufacturing capacity at the disposal of the Bureau is ample for all purposes, viz: Augusta Mills5,000lbs, per day. Selma Mills500lbs, per day. Raleigh Mills600lbs, per day. Richmond Mills (in a few weeks)1,500lbs, per day.    Total7,600lbs, per day. There is besides a private mill at Charlotte, North Carolina, and an excellent mill belonging to the Navy Department at Columbia, South Carolina. The products could be nearly doubled by running the mills day and night. The quantity of small arms ammunition in the hands of the troops in the field is about eighty to ninety rounds to the man. The most obstinate and protracted battles, such as Chancellorsville and Getty
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
he control of this Bureau to manufacture 55,000 rifles and carbines per annum, provided a sufficient mechanical force be employed, as follows: Richmond Armory25,000rifles, with450workmen. Fayetteville Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Columbia, S. C. Armory4,000rifles, with125workmen. Athens, Ga. Armory10,000rifles, with250workmen. Tallassee, Ala. Armory6,000carbines,150workmen.      55,000 1,225  The proviso is the workmen, and these must be permanently attached to those establ. Raleigh Mills600lbs, per day. Richmond Mills (in a few weeks)1,500lbs, per day.    Total7,600lbs, per day. There is besides a private mill at Charlotte, North Carolina, and an excellent mill belonging to the Navy Department at Columbia, South Carolina. The products could be nearly doubled by running the mills day and night. The quantity of small arms ammunition in the hands of the troops in the field is about eighty to ninety rounds to the man. The most obstinate and protracted b
Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
n to Virginia again, at General Breckinridge's instance, I took the bundle of reports, abovementioned, out of the case in which I had carried it from Richmond to Charlotte, and (leaving all the other books and papers of the War Office stored in a warehouse in Charlotte, where they were found by the Federals and transferred to the BCharlotte, where they were found by the Federals and transferred to the Bureau of Rebel archives in Washington), brought it on my person back to Virginia. In May or June, 1865, not long after I reached Albemarle county, Virginia, an order was published by, I think, General Halleck, requiring all Confederate documents to be turned in, on pain of being severely dealt with. Before complying with this oy. Raleigh Mills600lbs, per day. Richmond Mills (in a few weeks)1,500lbs, per day.    Total7,600lbs, per day. There is besides a private mill at Charlotte, North Carolina, and an excellent mill belonging to the Navy Department at Columbia, South Carolina. The products could be nearly doubled by running the mills day and n
Albemarle (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
d being about to return to Virginia again, at General Breckinridge's instance, I took the bundle of reports, abovementioned, out of the case in which I had carried it from Richmond to Charlotte, and (leaving all the other books and papers of the War Office stored in a warehouse in Charlotte, where they were found by the Federals and transferred to the Bureau of Rebel archives in Washington), brought it on my person back to Virginia. In May or June, 1865, not long after I reached Albemarle county, Virginia, an order was published by, I think, General Halleck, requiring all Confederate documents to be turned in, on pain of being severely dealt with. Before complying with this order (which I greatly regret now that I complied with at all), I copied with the assistance of some friends each report. I personally compared every one, whether transcribed by my own hand or that of another, in order to be able to attest the accuracy of the copy. Having completed the copies, I delivered the
Selma (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
, and an iron gun, tightly banded, substituted for the 12-pounder Napoleon, which gives entire satisfaction. Harness and equipments have not been deficient. Cavalry--Good cavalry arms are much needed. Here again the removal of an armory (for military reasons) and the want of workmen have crippled the Bureau. The seacoast defences have been supplied with a large number of 10 and 8-inch columbiads and some heavy rifled and banded guns. The want of transportation for iron and coal from Selma to Macon has paralyzed the operations of the foundry for heavy guns established at Macon. I regret, too, that military operations about Richmond have prevented the carting of 12-inch guns, the preparations for which are now completed. A few guns of this calibre at Wilmington would have been of inestimable advantage in defence against monitors. Mechanics, Miners, Artizans, &c.--While the army has been well supplied during the past year, there are causes operating which will render futu
Lexington, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.8
other, in order to be able to attest the accuracy of the copy. Having completed the copies, I delivered the originals in person to the colonel commanding at Charlottesville, to be forwarded to headquarters at Richmond. I never knew whether this was done or not, but from the interesting character especially of the letters of Generals Lee and Johnston, I expected to see some mention of them, which I have never seen. The copies I retained. In October, 1865, having occasion to visit Lexington, Virginia, and having heard that General Lee was engaged in preparing a Memoir of the Army of Northern Virginia, and supposing that the copies I had of his own and General Johnston's reply to the letter of the Secretary would be useful to him in that work, I took them with me to Lexington, and gave them to him. The Reports of the Heads of Bureaus, viz: The Quartermaster-General, Commissary-General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, Surgeon-General, and Bureau of Foreign Supplies, I hand
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