[Bull Snipe]

one third of all Confederate field artillery was captured Federal manufactured weapons. I never said they had nothing. The basic fact is that the Confederacy lacked the manufacturing capacity meet its military needs in artillery, rifle muskets, railroad engines, rolling stock or rail. They could make some of it but they had to capture or import the balance.

[BroJoeK]

Bull Snipe: "The basic fact is that the Confederacy lacked the manufacturing capacity meet its military needs in artillery, rifle muskets, railroad engines, rolling stock or rail.
They could make some of it but they had to capture or import the balance."

Agreed.