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The Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory Site is a historic archaeological site in Fredericksburg, Virginia.The manufactory was founded in 1775 by Charles Dick and Fielding Lewis, proprietor of the nearby Kenmore Plantation, and brother-in-law to George Washington, to provide guns and ammunition to the Continental Army and state militia during the American Revolutionary War.
Richmond, Virginia: Rifles G. P. Sloat, formerly of Philadelphia, Supt. Virginia Manufactory Richmond, Virginia: Rifles See Firearms in American History by Charles Winthrop Sawyer, Vol. 3 (Our Rifles), 1920, pp. 219-220. Civil War Guns and Weapons at thomaslegion.net; Civil War Artillery: Confederate Manufacturers
A British observer, Arthur Lyon Fremantle noted in 1863 that many of the guns belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia were captured pieces of Northern manufacture. [21] Model 1857 12-pounder Napoleon at National Civil War Naval Museum. The 12-pounder Napoleon was the most favored field gun of both Union and Confederate armies.
The Northern Virginia and Maryland Campaigns still showed numerous defects in the organization and leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia, particularly the high rate of straggling and desertion during the invasion of Maryland. Lee had fewer than 40,000 men on the field at Antietam, the smallest his army would be until the Appomattox Campaign.
Virginia passed the Uniform Machine Gun Act, which was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The only firearms in Virginia that are prohibited are the Armsel Striker , also known as the Striker 12, similar shotguns, and any "plastic firearms."
Guns owned by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan; Firearms of exhibition shooters such as Annie Oakley, the Topperweins, and Ed McGivern; The first machine gun used in combat by the U.S. Army (Roosevelt's Rough Riders) Guns of Olympic gold medalists including Launi Meili, and other shooting ...
In early 1863 Robert E. Lee sent nearly all of the Army of Northern Virginia's bronze 6-pounder guns to Tredegar to be melted down and recast as Napoleons. [8] Copper for casting bronze pieces became increasingly scarce to the Confederacy throughout the war and became acute in November 1863 when the Ducktown copper mines near Chattanooga were ...
The Virginia Manufactory of Arms was a state-owned firearms manufacturer and arsenal in what is today Richmond, Virginia. It was established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1798 to supply the Virginia militia with firearms and related items such as swords and bayonets. The factory originally operated from 1802 or 1803 to 1821.