[central_va]

When Richmond burned most of the records were gone with the fire. Shame too. During the Congressional Post War hearings the Confederate ordnance chief Colonel Josiah Gorgas had too testify from memory on the number of cannons made .etc. do to a lack of documentation. He even came up with the ammounts of ammo produced from memory.

[Non-Sequitur]

When Richmond burned most of the records were gone with the fire.

Then where did all these come from? Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865

And all the thousands of documents in Series IV of the OR? How did those survive the Richmond conflagration? Not to mention the thousands and thousands of confederate documents included elsewhere in the OR? Offical Record of the War of Rebellion

The Southron propensity for myth creating knows no bounds.

[southernsunshine]

“When Richmond burned most of the records were gone with the fire. Shame too.”

You see my point. Richmond’s weren’t the only records that burned either.