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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)
the industry and commerce of the rebel States to supply its troops with provisions, equipments, and arms to the same extent as its adversary. But at the outset of the war they possessed a very great advantage. As we have stated elsewhere, Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War under President Buchanan, had taken care to send to the South one hundred and fifteen thousand muskets, which, being added to the one hundred and twenty thousand already in the arsenals of Charleston, Fayetteville, Augusta, Mount Vernon, and Baton Rouge, secured a complete armament for the first Confederate armies of sufficiently good quality. The conduct of Secretary Floyd is referred to at the close of General J. E. Johnston's Narrative, with a view to exonerate him from these charges. See pp. 426 and 427 of that work.—Ed. The war once begun, the Confederate government—thanks to the activity of its administrative departments, the zeal of private individuals, and the supplies of materials it received from Europe, no