Sources for Selma Arsenal

WAR DEPT. COLL. OF CONF. RECORDS, GROUP 109, “CITIZENS FILE” NATIONAL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPT. COLLECTION OF CONFEDERATE RECORDS-CHAPT. IV, GROUP 109. Records of the Ordnance Bureau, Vol. 90, 91, 91 _  Records of correspondence form the Richmond Arsenal. CONFEDERATE ORDNANCE MANUAL- REGULATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT OF ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT,  C.S.A., Richmond, Va. 1862 Selma: Her Institution and […]

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Saddle Manufacturing at the Selma Arsenal

1861                   1862                  1863                  1864                 1865 Jenifer:                                                             Spring 1862-Aug 1863 **McClellan                                                                                       Aug 1863   –   End of War ** Includes issue of cloth covered saddles SELMA PRODUCTION NUMBERS:  (Summary from major contractors only) 25                       3,508                    ?                         ?                    ?

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The Selma Arsenal

With its relative safety and convenient proximity to significant resources including iron, timber, labor, railroad lines and year round water transportation, the little cotton town of Selma Alabama grew during the war to become a great center of Confederate manufacture and business. The Selma Arsenal began operation sometime in the Spring of 1862 initially with […]

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