Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Ordnance


Since the commencement of the war, the different foundries at West Point, South Boston, and Pittsburg have turned out 1,046 cannon of all kinds, beside 151 mortars and howitzers.  They have also manufactured shot and shell to the number of 173, 226.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 14, 1862, p. 2 

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