| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| March 14, 1861 |
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| 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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