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The document summarizes the history of the Confederate Powder Works during the American Civil War. It describes how the Confederacy lacked gunpowder production capabilities at the start of the war. Efforts were made to establish saltpeter refineries in Nashville and gunpowder mills throughout the South under difficult conditions. Temporary mills in Tennessee and other states helped supply troops until the main powder works were established in Augusta, Georgia to provide for the Confederacy

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