NP, NODC 3/14/1861

From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
 
March 14, 1861
 
Military Resources of the South
   The New York Herald of the 8th inst. has the following remarks concerning the military resources of the Southern States:
   An erroneous idea generally prevails at the North that the new Confederacy, in preparing for military defence, will experience some difficulty in procuring a supply of artillery stores and munitions of war. ***** The machine shop of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, near Newbern, N. C., has been transformed into a military arsenal, where several hundred hands are now employed in altering muskets and casting shot and shell. The alterations of the old style musket to the Minnie style, compared with similar alterations in this State, give the superiority to the former in every respect. The samples of shot recently exhibited included a sixty-four-pounder and a six-pounder and forty-pound shells. The casting was faultless. The railroad company have offered to contract with the Confederate States for an indefinite supply of both guns and missiles, guaranteeing to do the work equal to any done at the North, and at a less price. *****

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