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0N September, 1860, the Mayor and Common Council of Augusta passed a resolution re- questing that a sufficient force be stationed at the arsenal for the protection of the arms stored there. The Secretary of War had sent 22,000 muskets and rifles to the arsenal in pursuance of his policy to fill the southern arsenals with large quantities of arms and ammunition. Accordingly, in October, Company E, Second Ar- tillery, under command of Captain Arnold Elzey, came to the arsenal with a lieutenant and eighty- two enlisted men. It was Captain Elzey who sur- rendered the arsenal to the Confederate Army Colonel W. H. Walker, after Georgia seceded from the Union. Early in 1861, a large brick building was con- structed near the eastern boundary. It was used as foundry, machine shops and storehouse. During the Civil War, part of the building was used as a hospital, part as a blacksmith shop, a tin shop and a harness shop and equipment department for field artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Gill was the first Confed- erate commander. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1848. He died June 7, 1862, and was succeeded by Lt. Col. George W. Rains. Under the direction of Col. Rains, a powder works was built on the old arsenal site. It was rated as the second largest in the world and supplied all powder and ammunition to the Confederate armies. All that now remains of it is an obelisk ch imney 1 15 feet tall. Upon the approach of Sherman ' s army, the powder works and machine shops were dismantled and sent to Columbia, S.C, but were returned to the arsenal and put back into use when it was found that Sher- man had by-passed Augusta.
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