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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Comments on the First volume of Count of Paris' civil War in America. (search)
ouse of Representatives was then Republican, with a Republican Speaker, and Mr. Stanton and a majority of his committee were Republicans, and of course with no bias to induce them to misstate the facts to screen Governor Floyd. From those reports, and the evidence accompanying them, it appears that the United States had on hand in its arsenals at the North--mostly at Springfield--499,554 muskets of the old percussion and flint-lock patterns, and under orders given by Governor Floyd in December, 1859--several months before Mr. Lincoln was nominated, and when the Democratic party was confident of carrying the next presidential election--105,000 of these muskets were removed to arsenals in the South, which were comparatively empty, and at the same time there were removed to the same arsenals 10,000 old percussion rifles. These constituted the 115,000 muskets which the. author says secured a complete armament for the Confederate armies of superior quality, and left the Federal Governme