Memphis & Charleston Machine Shop Production

Listed below are the Ordnance items produced by the Memphis & Charleston RR Machine Shop in Memphis in 1861

Date Quantity Description
Sept 4 225 12 pdr Cannon Shot
  33 6 pdr Cannon Shot
Sept 14 8 Conical 32 pdr Rifle Shot
Sept 19 2 Cassions
Sept 24 4 Cassions
Sept 30 371 12 pdr Cannon Shot
  71 6 pdr Shot
Oct 7 100 Parrott Shells
  100 Parrott Shot
  1 Rifled Cannon & Limber
  104 Rifle Cannon Balls
Oct 9 1 Parrott Rifled Gun & Limber
  67 7 pdr Tredegar Parrott Rifle Shot
  13 61 pdr Shells
Oct 14 1 Parrott Rifled Gun
Oct 16 1 Parrott Gun casting rifled & finished
Oct 17 150 3 in Parrott Shells
  150 3 in Parrott Shot
  20 58 lb Shells
Oct 19 3 Parrott Gun Castings
Oct 21 476 lbs Iron castings for Rifling Machine
  6 lbs Brass castings for Rifling Machine
Oct 24 2 Parrott Rifled Guns
Oct 25 1650 lbs 8 castings for 12 pdr Guns Flasks
  1 12 pdr Gun Pattern
Oct 26 20 58 lb Shells
  4 Ramrods
  2 Worms
Oct 29 2 Rifled Cannon
Oct 30 2 Parrott Rifled Guns
  1 6 pdr Cannon (cast at Huntsville shop)
Oct 31 60 58 lb Shells
  3 91 lb Shells
Oct ? 1150 lbs 24 castings for 12 pdr Guns Flasks
Nov 1 2 Battery Wagons
Nov 5 1 Battery Wagon
Nov 15 1 3 in Rifle Gun & Carriage
Nov 19 3 Battery Wagons
Dec 6 6 Army Forges w/o Vices, Forge or Bellows
Dec 19 1 Timber Mounted & Bolted for Siege Gun pattern
Dec 20 1 6 pdr Howitzer & Carriage
Feb 3, '62 1 24 pdr Gun Pattern

All guns, wagons and carriages are listed as "complete."

The above list is created from the vouchers in the Memphis & Charleston RR Citizen's File of the National Archives

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