Atlanta arsenal, rolling mill and depots
Depot, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Years
- 1861-1864
ATLANTA ARSENAL AND DEPOTS
Quartermaster warehouses here held food, clothing and ammunition for the Western armies. The city also had the Confederate Arsenal, a naval ordnance works and the Atlanta Rolling Mill, which rolled armor plate for ironclads. Hood destroyed 81 cars of ammunition when he left on September 1, 1864.
Then
Quartermaster warehouses filled with food, clothing and ammunition for the Western armies. The city held the Confederate Arsenal at Walton and Peachtree streets, a naval ordnance works making gun carriages and 7-inch shells, and the Atlanta Rolling Mill, which rolled armor plate for ironclads including CSS Virginia.
Arsenal machinery was ordered to Augusta and Columbia in July 1864. Hood destroyed 81 cars of ammunition when he left on September 1, 1864, and Sherman destroyed the remaining military assets before leaving in November 1864.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX run through Atlanta today.
Served by
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