Columbus arsenal
Arsenal, Columbus, Mississippi.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Columbus, Mississippi
- Years
- 1861-1865
COLUMBUS ARSENAL
The arsenal at Columbus made gunpowder, handguns and a few cannon, 1861-1865, and the town was also a hospital center. A Union move on Columbus was stopped by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Then
The arsenal at Columbus made gunpowder, handguns and a few cannon. The town was also a hospital center.
A Union move on Columbus was stopped by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads and CPKC run through Columbus today.
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