ry
equipments.

One hundred of the 12-pounder Napoleon guns were formed into complete
Batteries, and sent to the Army of Tennessee and North Georgia; the
metal being received from Ducktown, Tennessee, and other places wherever
it could be procured, including Church and other bells, and captured
6-pounder bronze cannon. The improved Hand-Grenades with General G. J.
Raines' sensitive tubes were here manufactured, and many thousand sent
to the Confederate armies.

The Army of Tennessee, before the fall of Atlanta, being at one period
about to run short of small arm ammunition, and finding it impracticable
to procure sufficient additional labor in time, a call was made on the
ladies of Summerville and Augusta, to assist in making cartridges. This
call was answered with all the promptness which their devotion to the
cause inspired, and by their invaluable aid the danger was tided over by
the production of 75,000 cartridges per day.

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| active operation, and in his recent valuable book, speaks in") |
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