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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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COPYRIGHT, CONFEDERATE TORPEDOES, SHOT AND SHELL COLLECTED IN THE CHARLESTON ARSENAL Conical-onded torpedoes, as well as several different kinds of shot and shell, make up the heterogeneous collection in the yard of theCharleston Arsenal. ^The breech and several pieces of the huge Blakely gun used in the defense of the city also appear. In two years,the powder and ordnance works at Augvista turned out among other things 110 field-guns, mostly bronze 12-pounder Napoleons. IT-lgun-carriages, 115 caissons, 343 limbers to field artillery, 21 battery wagons, 31 traveling forges, 10,535 powder-boxes, 11,811 boxes forsmall-arm ammunition, 73,521 horseshoes, 12,630 pounds of nitric acid, 2,227 ounces of fulminate of mercury, 2,455 complete saddles,2,535 single sets of artillery harness, 2,477 signal rockets, 85.800 rounds of fixed ammunition, 130,642 artillery cartridge-bags, 200,113time-fuses, 476,207 pounds of artillery projectiles, 4,580,000 buckshot, 4,626,000 lead balls, 1,000,000 percus

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