Fayetteville Arsenal
Arsenal, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Ruins
FAYETTEVILLE ARSENAL
Federal arsenal taken by North Carolina militia on April 22, 1861. On machinery from the Harpers Ferry armory it made the Fayetteville rifle, with cartridges, swords and bayonets, up to 500 rifles per month. Sherman's troops razed and burned it in March 1865.
U.S. ARSENAL
Authorized by Congress, 1836. Taken over by Confederacy, 1861. Destroyed March 1865, by Sherman. Ruins stand 2 blocks S.W.
Then
The arsenal made the Fayetteville rifle on machinery taken from the Harpers Ferry armory, along with cartridges, swords and bayonets. At its peak it produced 500 rifles per month.
North Carolina militia took the federal arsenal on April 22, 1861. Sherman occupied Fayetteville on March 11, 1865, and his troops razed and burned the arsenal.
Now
Ruins
Little remains on the site after a 1988 loop road. Foundations of two towers lie in the park behind the Museum of the Cape Fear, and the 1862 Arsenal House survives there.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 0.5 miles away.
Nearby
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- 53 miFoster burns the Wilmington and Weldon bridge at GoldsboroDecember 17, 1862, Neuse River bridge, Goldsboro, North Carolina