2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/6/2021
An expense ledger, headed, "Estimates of the Amount of all Materials & Machinery contained in Buildings pertaining to Confederate Works and located on 48 acres of Land belonging to the Ordnance Department USA near Augusta, Ga." The listing includes Steam engines, Buildings, lumber, Bricks, Slate Iron, Tin, etc. ND, c1871. Following the secession of Georgia from the Union, then governor, Joseph E. Brown, visited the arsenal on January 23, 1861 and demanded that the commander, Arnold Elzey surrender the facility to the state. Elzey initially refused. 600 citizens of Augusta then volunteered for militia duty based on rumors that the state was going to take the arsenal from Elzey and his small contingent of 82 soldiers. Brown gave Elzey a second chance to surrender the facility, demanding an answer by 9 o'clock the next morning. After notifying his superiors of the situation via telegraph, Elzey turned the arsenal over to the state the next day.
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