r has given away to
the white staple of peace.

Of the extensive Confederate Powder Works nothing remains except the
obelisk enclosing the great Chimney. Its battlemented tower and lofty
shaft, large proportions and beautiful workmanship, will bear evidence
of the magnitude and style of their construction to future generations.

APPENDIX.

To the special duties of the manufacture of gunpowder were added the
command of the Augusta Arsenal, on the 7th April, 1862, and at a later
period that of the Military District of Augusta. In the early part of
February, 1863, in connection with Captain Fairfax, of the Confederate
Navy, the duties of getting into effective operation the extensive and
unfinished Foundry Works constructed at Selma, Alabama, under contract
with the War and Navy Departments, were superadded. When the
communication with Richmond was endangered, in the latter part of the
war, all the Arsenals south of Virginia, were committed to my charge.

It had been the design at an early period, of the Chief of Ordnance, to
convert the Arsenal at Augusta into one of construction, and Capt. Gill
was placed in charge with that object in view. On taking command, I
found there were no existing facilities for large constructive works;
thus the intention had to be for the time, abandoned, but it was found
available, by the erection of several wood structures, for lighter work,
such as the preparation of cartridges, fixed ammunition, signal rockets,
fuses, primers, grenades, nitric acid, fulminates and percussion caps,
etc.

It was necessary for works of construction to make available the water
power of the canal within the city; accordingly, a Machine and Foundry
establishment, then lying idle, was purchased. Air and cupola furnaces,
etc., were added to the Foundry, and lathes, planers, drills, etc., were
purchased from Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Columbus, Georgia, and
from Selma, Alabama, and other places, and added to those already
present in the Machine Works. Also an extensive and complete
gun-carriage department was erected, and a powder-box manufactory
established, together with several houses for the preparation of small
arm cartridges, and other purposes. These structures were rapidly
erected, and machinists, founders, blacksmiths, tinners, harness makers,
armorers, etc., and the various material required, were gathered from
all available sources. The large brick building erected by Captain Gill
at t