Record #:

22561

Author(s):

Alexander, Violet G.

Abstract:

An iron marker now sits at the site of the Confederate Navy Yard in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Navy Yard operated from spring of 1862 until 1865. Commanded by first by General R.L. Page and later by H. Ashton Ramsay, a number of large structures were erected on site, including a gun carriage shop, a laboratory, a torpedo shop, a forge where propeller shafting was forged for all the Confederate ironclads. Rifles, shot, shells, and torpedoes were also manufactured at the Navy Yard in Charlotte.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 23 Issue 1,2,3,4, January 1926, p28-37

Subject(s):

Monuments; North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America--Navy