CONFEDERATE PERCUSSION CAP SCRAPS FROM BRIARFIELD ARSENAL

CONFEDERATE PERCUSSION CAP SCRAPS FROM BRIARFIELD ARSENAL

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Offered here is a 6” x 6” wood display case with finished percussion caps, unfinished cap “blanks”, and two narrow strips of copper with “blanks” punched out. All recovered from the site of the Briarfield Arsenal.

The copper strips and “blanks” are an interesting, usually unseen and forgotten, piece of necessary manufacturing history during war time. Percussion caps are found all over the battlefields, but these scraps cause us to realize that it took many hands to produce them.

The largest arsenal in Mississippi was the Confederate Briarfield Arsenal in Columbus, located at an important junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The Briarfield Arsenal employed more than one thousand workers between the summer of 1861 and December 1862. It was the fourth largest in the Confederacy in the production of small-arms ammunition (behind only Richmond, Virginia; Augusta, Georgia; and Atlanta). Braxton Bragg declared in 1862 that the arsenal contained “machinery and stores we cannot replace; so that its loss would be great and irreparable.” When General Pemberton fell back to Vicksburg and Jackson in November 1862, the Briarfield Arsenal machinery was moved to Selma, Alabama.

Reference “Round Ball to Rimfire” Part Four, page 258, and the Briarfield Chapter in “Confederate Arsenals, Laboratories, and Ordnance Depots.”  [jet][ph:L]

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