1862 – Request from the Selma Ordnance and Naval Foundry to the Shelby County Iron Manufacturing Company for iron to complete building of “Iron Clad floating batteries . . . for securing the safety of Mobile"
Selma, Alabama: 1862. Unbound. This one-page manuscript purchase order was placed with the Shelby County Iron Manufacturing Company, Alabama by a Confederate Ordnance Department agent at the Selma Ordnance and Naval Foundry on September 29, 1862. There is some marginal computational docketing related to the purchase. No mailing envelope. In..... More