HISTORY OF THE Confederate Powder Works

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From an address delivered by invitation before the Confederate Survivors Association, at its Fourth Annual Meeting, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1882. Fellow Confederate Survivors: In accepting your invitation to address you on the general history of the Confederate Powder Works, I do so with some hesitation, on account of my close personal connection with a subject which absorbed my thought, time and energies. In the history of a war we find, generally, but little reference to the manufactories engaged in the preparation of material; they had been previously established, and were in active operation before its commencement, their products being immediately available for active operations. An instance can scarcely be found in modern warfare where previous preparations had not been made, and where the necessary manufacturing works did not already exist. The late war was entered upon unexpectedly.