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 [p29] 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.
Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. In particular, the word “ordnance” was consistently misspelled “ordinance” in the original, and has been corrected.
The second line of the fourth paragraph on [page 23] was originally transposed to the end of the third paragraph. This has been corrected to restore the sense of the text.