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Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,
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History of Alabama, pp. 180, 181; Davis, Vol. I, pp. 480, 481; Hardy,
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History of Selma, pp. 46, 47; _N. Y. Times_, Nov. 2, 1865 (Truman); O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. III, pp. 986, 987. The arsenal was commanded by Col. J. L. White; the naval foundries and the rolling mills were under the direction of Capt. Catesby ap Roger Jones, the designer of the _Virginia_; Commodore Ebenezer Farrand superintended the construction of war vessels at the Selma navy-yard. Captain Jones cast the heavy ordnance for the forts at Mobile, Charleston, and Wilmington. Five gunboats were built at Selma in 1863 and two or three others in 1864-1865. The ram _Tennessee_, built in 1863-1864, was constructed like the _Virginia_, but was an improvement except for the weak engines. When the keel of the _Tennessee_ was laid, in the fall of 1863, some of the timbers to be used in her were still standing in the forest, and the iron for her plates was ore in the mines. Scharf,
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Confederate Navy, pp. 50, 534, 550, 555;
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Northern Alabama Illustrated, p. 654; Maclay,
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History of United States Navy, Vol. II, pp. 446, 447; Wilson,
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Ironclads in Action,
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Clarke County,