Selma Arsenal and Naval Foundry
Ordnance works, Selma, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ordnance works
- Where
- Selma, Alabama
- Years
- 1862-1865
SELMA ARSENAL AND NAVAL FOUNDRY
Naval foundry, shipyard, army arsenal and powder works employing at least ten thousand people by 1863. It cast Brooke rifles and laid the hulls of the ironclads Tennessee, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa and Phoenix. Wilson's cavalry took Selma on April 2, 1865.
Then
The Selma complex had a naval foundry, shipyard, army arsenal and powder works and employed at least ten thousand people by 1863. It cast Brooke rifles and laid the hulls of the ironclads Tennessee, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa and Phoenix.
Wilson's cavalry took Selma on April 2, 1865, and spent the next week destroying the arsenal and naval foundry.
Now
Lines owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern run through Selma today.
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