Confederate Armory, Holly Springs
Armory, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Holly Springs, Mississippi
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Ruins
HOLLY SPRINGS ARMORY
The Jones, McElwain and Company foundry became a Confederate armory in 1861 with contracts for 30,000 rifles and muskets. After Shiloh its machinery went to Macon, Georgia. Van Dorn's Confederates burned the building on December 20, 1862.
Then
The Jones, McElwain and Company foundry became a Confederate armory in 1861 with contracts for 30,000 rifles and muskets. No marked arms are known, and it likely only repaired and converted existing guns.
After Shiloh its machinery went to Macon, Georgia. Union troops used it as a hospital from November 1862, and Van Dorn's Confederates burned it on December 20, 1862.
Now
Ruins
Scant ruins of the foundry remain. The site has been on the National Register since 1972.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by BNSF.
Nearby
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- 44 miForrest routs the expedition sent to keep him off Sherman's railroadJune 10, 1864, Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi