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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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l the powder necessary had been purchased, whilethe supply of sulphur had been augmented. In the matter of small arms, the country, by June 30, 1863,was entirely independent. The supply from the SpringfieldArmory alone was capable of equipping two hundred andfifty thousand troops a year, and the private manufacturerswere fully able to supply two hundred and fifty thousand more.Of carbines for cavalry, the capacity of established factoriesunder contract with the Government was at least one hundredthousand annually, and of pistols not less than three hundredthousand. The duties of officers commanding armories and arsenalsand their responsibilities Avere almost without limitation, in-volving the control and disbursement of vast quantities of thepublic money, and the supervision of almost every branch ofthe mechanic arts. The department, due to the untiring ener-gies of its personnel, both commissioned and enlisted, aided bythe large body of civilian employees in service, had been able l\
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A MAMMOTH SEA-COAST CANNON AIMED BY WOODEN WEDGES—1861 This Rodman smooth-bore gun in Port Royal, South Carolina, is mounted on a wooden carriage of a typeprevalent during the war. These carriages were sufficiently strong to carry the guns of that time, beingmade of selected oak, beech, ash, hickory, cypress, or some other durable and resisting wood; but at theclose of the war the increased size and power of the guns had surpassed the strength of the old carriages,and the Ordnance Department was confronted with the problem of replacing all the old carriages and makingiron carriages for the guns then in process of construction. The elevating device seen on this carriage isprimitive, consisting of wooden wedges to be inserted, one on top of another, until the required eleva-tion of the breach was obtained. The recoil on firing sent the piece back, and it was loaded in its recoilposition. The piece was returned in battery by inserting the bars in the holes in the wheels of the uppercar

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