![]() ![]() Connecticut’s armories were ready to respond.īy the mid-19th century, Connecticut manufacturers had mastered the complexities of innovation, capital, labor, and raw materials for machine-based precision mass production of intricate metal parts and, with a collective and deeply rooted firearms production heritage going back a half century, were ideally poised to make arms for the Union. 58-caliber rifle muskets (“the best infantry arm in the world”) in the next 12 months he also assessed how many rifles and revolvers they would need. Ripley, chief of ordnance, estimated they would need 500,000 new Model Springfield. The goal was to impose order on the frenzied rush to arm the Union caused by “the unexampled demand for arms consequent upon the sudden breaking out of the present gigantic rebellion….” In the report, General James W. Nelson for Connecticut ExploredĪ year into the Civil War, the US War Department’s “Commission on Ordnance and Ordnance Stores” reported to Congress on the state of the nation’s confused armament contracts involving tens of millions of federal dollars. ![]()
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