--Contents of Arsenals.--Other
Stores, Mills, etc.--First Efforts to obtain Powder, Niter, and
Sulphur.--Construction of Mills commenced.--Efforts to supply
Arms, Machinery, Field-Artillery, Ammunition, Equipment, and
Saltpeter.--Results in 1862.--Government Powder-Mills; how
organized.--Success.--Efforts to obtain Lead.--
Smelting-Works.--Troops, how armed.--Winter of 1862.--
Supplies.--Niter and Mining Bureau.--Equipment of First
Armies.--Receipts by Blockade-Runners.--Arsenal at
Richmond.--Armories at Richmond and Fayetteville.--A Central
Laboratory built at Macon.--Statement of General Gorgas.--
Northern Charge against General Floyd answered.--Charge of
Slowness against the President answered.--Quantities of Arms
purchased that could not be shipped in 1861.--Letter of Mr.
Huse.
At the beginning of the war the arms within the limits of the
Confederacy were distributed as follows:
Rifles. Muskets.
At Richmond (State) about 4,000
Fayetteville, North Carolina " 2,000 25,000
Charleston, South Carolina " 2,000 20,000
Augusta, Georgia " 3,000 28,000
Mount Vernon, Alabama " 2,000 20,000
Baton Rouge, Louisiana " 2,000 27,000
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Total 15,000 120,000
There were at Richmond about sixty thousand old flint-muskets, and at
Baton Rouge about ten thousand old Hall's rifles and carbines.
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