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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The red Artillery. (search)
The red Artillery. Confederate Ordnance during the war. The difficulty of obtaining it. Plan proposed to increase accuracy and range of smooth-bore muskets by firing an elongated projectile made of lead and hard Wood. William Le Roy Broun, President Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, formerly lieutenant-colonel of ordnance of the Confederate army, commanding the Richmond Arsenal, contributes the following article to the Journal of the United States Artillery of April, 1898: In complying with your request to write an article for your Journal, giving experiences and difficulties in obtaining ordnance during the war, I will endeavor, relying on my memory and some available memoranda preserved, to give you a statement of the collection and manufacture of ordnance stores for the use of the Confederate armies, so far as such manufacture was under my observation and control. After a year's service in the field as an artillery officer, I was ordered to Richmond and made Su