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-Ji s i n — f m I HE basic document for the establishment of an arsenal in Augusta is a letter, dated March 9, 1793, filed in the archives of the State of Georgia, from President George Washington ' s Secretary of War, in which it was directed that an arsenal be established with a stand of two thousand arms for protection against the Indians. A log fort had been built in 1735, immediately after a handful of people had pulled their pirogues up the slick sides of the blue Savannah River at the present site of St. Paul ' s Episcopal Church. The first fortification had been called Fort Augusta. However, after several battles during the Revolu- tionary War, the old fort was destroyed. When, after the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States of America began to feel the growing pains of a free and independent country, it beca me necessary to construct permanent fortifications, Augusta Arsenal was one of the first to be built. As the city was growing so rapidly, it was consid- ered desirable to move the guns and other equipment for protection to a site several miles northwest of the old fort (but still on the Savannah River), the location selected being the place where the Sibley Mills now stand. The property there was approximately 48- 14 16 acres. The new site was given the name Augusta Arsenal and by 1819 many buildings had been erected, at a cost of $163,905.45, and a detachment of thirty en- listed men, two lieutenants and a surgeon, all under the command of Captain Matthew M. Payne, Corps of Artillery, were assigned to duty there. The next year an epidemic of swamp, or yellow fever wiped out the entire garrison. Twenty-three of the enlisted men, one lieutenant and the surgeon were buried in the Arsenal enclosure. The other lieu- tenant and the remaining seven enlisted men were moved to a camp near Miliedge Spring and died there. Captain Payne alone survived. He was visiting the Walkers at their summer place called Bellevue. tV»-
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