Identifier: storyofconfedera00derr (find matches)
Title: Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Derry, Joseph Tyrone, 1841-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America -- History
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B.F. Johnson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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States, as from East Tennessee, NorthernArkansas, and some other places. 12. In the matter of arms the North had an immenseadvantage over the South. All the foundries for themanufacture of arms, except one cannon foundry atRichmond, were in the Northern States, and in theirarmories were stored allthe new and improved weaponsof war. The Southern States had arsenals, but mthem were only arms of the old and rejected models.The South had no powder factories, no navy to protecther ports, and no merchant ships for foreign com-merce. One hundred and fifty thousand small armswere all that could be found in the Southern Confede-racy, including both sides of the Mississippi. Nearlyall the muskets were the old flint-lock altered to per-cussion. If soldier§ enough were called into the fieldto handle these arms there would not be ten rounds ofammunition to the man. During the first year of thewar there were not arms enough in the ConfederateStates to supply the men who desired to enter the army.
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,>—^--5^--- --^ SERGEANT COLLIERS BRAVE ACT. While the fuse was still smoking, and the men were flying from the danger ofthe apprehended explosion, Sergeant Isaac P. Collier, of Company K, Fifth Regi-ment, Georgia Volunteers, seized the projectile and threw it out of the ditch. 113 114 Story of the Confederate States. 13. The Slaves During the War.—The conduct of theslaves during the war gives strong proof of the kindfeeling that existed between them and their masters.The great majority of them remained on the plantationsand by their labor supplied the armies in the field.Many negro men went with their young masters to war,faithfully waited on them, nursed them when sick,and, if they died in camp or in battle, returned with thelifeless bodies to lay them beside their kindred deadin the family burying-ground. 14. The fidelity of the slaves was due to the factthat most masters treated them kindly. Their toil wasnot unrequited, for they were supplied with whateverthey needed and w

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