Seven hundred Georgia state troops seized the forty-three year old Augusta Armory in Augusta, Georgia just after noon. Colonel Josiah Gorgas was to turn this installation into an important mill for the manufacture of gunpowder during the coming war. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Important from Georgia," New York Times, January 25, 1861, p. 1.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
