History of the Confederate Powder Works — John Shaqi
History of the Confederate Powder WorksRains, George Washington
History
History of the Confederate Powder Works
Rains, George Washington
Confederate Powder Works; Speeches, addresses, etc.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
110 Field Guns, mostly bronze, 12-pounder Napoleons. These guns were
cast, turned, bored and finished complete at all points. Four of them
now ornament the principal entrance to Washington's Headquarters, at
Newburgh, New York.
174 Gun Carriages.
115 Caissons.
343 Limbers to Field Artillery.
21 Battery Wagons.
31 Traveling Forges.
10,535 Powder Boxes.
11,811 boxes for Small Arm Ammunition.
73,521 Horse Shoes.
12,630 Nitric Acid, pounds of.
2,227 ounces of Fulminate of Mercury.
2,455 Saddles, complete.
2,535 Artillery Harness, single sets of.
2,477 Signal Rockets.
85,800 rounds of Fixed Ammunition.
136,642 Artillery Cartridge Bags.
200,113 Time Fuses.
476,207 pounds of Artillery Projectiles.
4,580,000 Buckshot.
4,626,000 Lead Balls.
1,000,000 Percussion Caps.
10,760,000 Cartridges for Small Arms.
Together with an immense amount of Infantry, Artillery and Calvary
equipments.
One hundred of the 12-pounder Napoleon guns were formed into complete
Batteries, and sent to the Army of Tennessee and North Georgia; the
metal being received from Ducktown, Tennessee, and other places wherever
it could be procured, including Church and other bells, and captured
6-pounder bronze cannon. The improved Hand-Grenades with General G. J.
Raines' sensitive tubes were here manufactured, and many thousand sent
to the Confederate armies.
The Army of Tennessee, before the fall of Atlanta, being at one period
about to run short of small arm ammunition, and finding it impracticable
to procure sufficient additional labor in time, a call was made on the
ladies of Summerville and Augusta, to assist in making cartridges. This
call was answered with all the promptness which their devotion to the
cause inspired, and by their invaluable aid the danger was tided over by
the production of 75,000 cartridges per day.
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