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Table B.1 Leading Small Arms Suppliers to the U.S. Army, 1861–1866 Value of Purchases by Calendar Year (in thousands of dollars)a Total, Supplier Name(s) Location 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1861–66 Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Co. Hartford, CT 480 1,502 1,805 900 4,687 Naylor & Co. (importer) New York, NY 63 1,449 2,295 4 3,811 E. Remington & Sons Ilion, NY 24 282 525 1,232 521 253 2,837 Herman Boker & Co. (importer)b New York, NY 2,693 73 41 2 2,809 Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Co. Hartford, CT 179 652 620 574 375 2,400 Marcellus Hartley (U.S. agent) (Europe) 2,147 2,147 George L. Schuyler (U.S. agent)b (Europe) 2,094 2,094 Burnside Arms Co. Providence, RI 38 128 590 489 835 2,080 Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. Boston, MA 20 525 805 703 25 2,078 Alfred Jenks & Son Philadelphia, PA 126 800 800 234 1,960 Providence Tool Co. Providence, RI 50 540 597 247 1,434 Starr Arms Co. Yonkers, NY 25 213 268 634 100 1,240 Lamson, Goodnow, & Yale Windsor, VT 97 474 419 990 Schuyler, Hartley, & Graham (importer) New York, NY 412 421 83 916 Thomas Poultney/ Poultney & Trimble Baltimore, MD 141 195 218 176 173 903 Norwich Arms Co. Norwich, CT 138 329 279 746 Total, 16 leading suppliers 33,132 Total, all army small arms purchases, 1861–66 47,060 Share of 16 leading suppliers 70% Share of top 4 suppliers 30% Top 4 suppliers, domestic private manufacture only 41% Sources: “Ordnance Department,” House Exec. Doc. 99, 40th Congr., 2nd Sess., ser. 1338. Total purchases by category from “Report of the Chief of Ordnance,” in U.S. War Department, 1866 Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1866 (Washington, D.C., 1867). a Ordnance Department purchases, in thousands of nominal dollars. b For Boker and Schuyler, 1861–62 purchases were reported together; they are combined in the 1862 column. appendix฀b LeadingNorthernMilitaryContractorsinSelectedIndustries Table B.2 Leading Heavy Ordnance (Artillery and Projectiles) Suppliers to the U.S. Army, 1861–1866 Value of Purchases by Calendar Year (in thousands of dollars)a Totals, Supplier Name(s) Location(s) 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1861–66 Robert P. Parrott/ West Point Foundry Cold Spring, NY 230 580 1,141 1,624 895 247 4,717 Charles Knap/Fort Pitt Foundry Pittsburgh, PA 157 255 468 178 1,032 645 2,735 Cyrus Alger/South Boston Iron Works Boston, MA 104 356 336 667 807 333 2,603 Hotchkiss & Sons Sharon, CT/ Bridgeport, CT 15 227 572 471 200 1,485 Seyfert, McManus & Co. Reading, PA 3 270 228 150 651 James T. Ames/Ames Manuf. Co. Chicopee, MA 292 51 162 77 1 583 Total, 6 leading suppliers 12,774 Total, all army small arms purchases, 1861–66 17,640 Share of 6 leading suppliers 72% Share of top 4 suppliers 65% Sources: Same as for table B.1. Ames & Co. supplied an additional $950,000 worth of swords and sabres, making it the Union’s largest supplier of these items by far. a Ordnance Department purchases, in thousands of nominal dollars. Table B.3 Leading Wagon and Ambulance Suppliers to the U.S. Army, 1861–1864 Value of Contracts by Calendar Year (in thousands of dollars)a Totals, Supplier Name(s) Location 1861 1862 1863 1864 1861–64 J. C. C. Holenshade/ Holenshade, Morris & Co. Cincinnati, OH 26 55 461 278 820 Henry Simons & Co. Philadelphia, PA 263 164 191 618 Wilson, Childs, & Co. Philadelphia, PA 150 108 134 392 Jacob Rech Philadelphia, PA 1 104 29 59 193 Adonijah Peacock & Son Cincinnati, OH 70 76 146 Louis Espensheid St. Louis, MO 68 56 124 James L. Haven Cincinnati, OH 10 65 23 98 Philip Dom Cincinnati, OH 6 14 72 92 Total, 8 leading suppliers 2,483 Total, all large QMD contracts, 1861–64 (see appendix C) 3,053 Share of 8 leading suppliers 81% Share of top 4 suppliers 66% Sources: Manuscript and published Quartermaster’s Department contract registers: vols. 13–15, e. 1238, RG 92, National Archives; “Contracts—War Department for the Year 1861,” House Exec. Doc. 101, 37th Congr., 2nd Sess., ser. 1136; “Contracts Made by the Quartermaster’s Department,” House Exec. Doc. 84, 38th Congr., 2nd Sess., ser. 1230. See also appendix C. Because the Quartermaster’s Department purchased some wagons in relatively small lots, further analysis of small contracts would likely provide a richer portrait of suppliers in this...

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