Salisbury Arsenal
Arsenal, Salisbury, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Salisbury, North Carolina
- Years
- 1863-1865
- Today
- Marker only
SALISBURY ARSENAL
The North Carolina Foundry became the Confederate Ordnance Works in April 1863. It made horseshoes, bayonets, cannonballs and muskets, and by 1864 shells for Parrott guns. Union troops under George Stoneman burned the arsenal on April 12, 1865.
Then
The North Carolina Foundry became the Confederate Ordnance Works in April 1863 and made horseshoes, bayonets, cannonballs and muskets. By 1864 it was making shells for Parrott guns, and a Nitre and Mining Bureau office opened in Salisbury that February.
Union troops under George Stoneman burned the arsenal on April 12, 1865.
Now
Marker only
A marker stands at East Kerr Street and Depot Street.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
Served by
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