Ruby M. McCrary Pfadenhauer Papers 

Folder 1 1816, 1822 (4 items)
Original copies of contracts to purchase land for arsenal from George and Lucy Pearson (1816); Lucy M. Pearson (Garnold) 1822.

Folder 2 May 1824 - November 1826 (8 letters) (see also Folder 6)
Letters to Major M. M. Payne concerning weapons shipments, purchase and construction of arsenal property.

Folder 3 May 20, 1826 (1 item)
An Act of Congress for the authorization for the Secretary of War to purchase land (not to exceed $70,000) for construction of a United States Arsenal.

Folder 4 December 26, 1826 (2 items, same)
An act of the state of Georgia consenting to the purchase of land for the arsenal.

Folder 5 No date (1 item)
List of Summerville residents opposed to the establishment of the arsenal in their village.

Folder 6 Nov. 11, 1826 (1 item)
Letter from Major M. M.. Payne to Col. B. Clif in regards to his letter dated 7/20/1826 (see also folder 2).

Folder 7 March 8, 1827 - November 15, 1827 (10 letters)
Letters to Major Payne from the ordnance department, Washington (U.S. Army) about weapons issues to the State of Georgia, to Governor J. Forsyth, and to South Carolina for militia use.

Folder 8 January 1827 - October 1827 (6 items)
Receipts and invoices pertaining to transfer of arms from the arsenal.

Folder 9 January 1828 - November 25, 1828 (13 items)
Letter to Major Payne concerning building the arsenal (January 1828); various letters to Major Fanning concerning disbursements, weapons issues and arsenal buildings; ordnance date April 1, 1828 prohibiting the employment of slaves in public service at arsenals, or elsewhere in the department.
 

Folder 10 December 1832 (2 letters) 
Letter of December 14, 1832 to commanding officer of US Arsenal from Col.                     Bomford concerning moving powder from old magazine. Letter of December 30, 1832 from William Littlefield addressing the reasons for his resignation.

Folder 11 January 1835 - December 1835 (21 items)
Orders for supplies from US Ordnance Department; requests for repairs of arms to Col. Bomford; estimates of funds required for the construction of a magazine and cistern at the arsenal from Col. Lindsay to Col. Bomford (Aug. 5, 1835); letter from William Bell to Major Baden (September 20, 1835) concerning use of Bell's invention of a traverse board and elevating machine intended for pointing of cannon.

Folder 12 January 1836 - April 1836 (9 items)
Invoices of ordnance and stores delivered to Augusta Arsenal; notice of inspection of ammunition received at Fort Dance, Florida from arsenal (February 3, 1836).

Folder 13 May 1836 (14 items)
Shipment of stores, account statements, subsistence purchases, invoice of ordinances.

Folder 14 June 1836 - July 1836 (14 items)
Transfer of stores; letter to R. K. Call, Governor of Florida, informing him that Capt. Harding, commanding officer of the Mt. Vernon Arsenal, AL has been directed to comply with requisitions.

Folder 15 August 1836 - September 1836 (14 items)
Receipt of stores, personnel matters, order for supplies.
 

Folder 1 October - December 1836 (19 items)
Orders for supplies, personnel assignments, receipts for stores, estimate of funds                    required for building a magazine at the arsenal.

Folder 2 January 1837 - December 1838 (9 items)
Congressional appropriations to the arsenal; order to forward 1,000 camp kettles to the Cherokee Country; letter to Capt. E Harding from ordnance office, Washington, D.C., (dated Sept. 25, 1838), directing him to assume the command of Augusta Arsenal in addition to becoming ordnance officer for troops and posts in Florida.

Folder 3 April 1843 - November 1848 (9 items)
General administrative correspondence some relating to horses and the quartering of an artillery company from St. Augustine; description and diagram of brick barracks June 6, 1843 request for receipts of stores left at the Arsenal; copy of general order no. 58 from the war department (Nov. 7, 1849 concerning troop dispatchment. 

Folder 4 January - December 1849 (23 items)
Court martial papers of soldiers of the Second Artillery; settlement of accounts;                         letters to John Galt, arsenal store keeper.

Folder 5 January 1850 - December 1851 (15 items)
Letters to John Galt concerning appropriation of funds, account settlements, and                   inspection of ordnances; further administrative correspondence concerning                              general accounts and disbursements, enlistment of men, and issue of equipment.

Folder 6 January - April 1852 (17 items)
Letters of inquiry from the Ordnance Department about the arsenal buildings,                                wages of civilian workmen, and enlistment of troops.

Folder 7 May - September 1852 (17 items)
Transfer of personnel; circular relating to proper folding of letters and statements sent to the Ordnance Office, authorization for purchase of a draught horse; expenditure of funds at the arsenal.

Folder 8 January 1853 - December 1854 (19 items)
Accounts and statements as well as adjustments to disbursements of quarterly returns.

Folder 9 February 1855 - August 1855 (10 items)
Correspondence relating to the death of an enlisted man, H. Clarke; account                          statements; remittance of funds from the US Treasury to the arsenal.

Folder 10 March 1861 - November 1863 (7 items)
Issues of small arms and ammunition.

Folder 11 1866 (2 items)
Regulations for paid laborers at the arsenal. Letter to Lt. Colonel Flagler about the deed for the arsenal property.

Folder 12 August 7, 1889 (1 item)
Advertisement  Proposal for Building One Brick Hospital

Folder 13  1895 (1 item)
Incomplete draft of proposed memorial being designed for Arsenal. 

Folder 14 Undated (2 items)
Description of  flagpole to be constructed at Augusta Arsenal. Includes transcription of original document. 

Folder 1 Establishment of Augusta Arsenal written 1884

Folder 2 Establishment of Augusta Arsenal - transcription of 1884 version in Folder 1

Folder 3 History of Augusta Arsenal from Establishment 1816 to November 11, 1918 written by Ruby Pfadenhauer

Folder 4 History of Augusta Arsenal 11/12/1918 to 6/30/1939
Includes Early History Establishment to Nov. 11, 1918. Also Ordnance Facilities, Inspection Problems and Practices. Report # CBR 15-61-GX-OC 

Folder 5 History of Augusta Arsenal 11/12/1918 to 6/30/1939, (continued)
Includes Small Arms; Field Artillery; Tan and Combat Vehicles; Motor Transport

Folder 6 History... (continued)
Includes Fuel Service, Storage, etc. Depots; Training and Personnel; Legal and Fiscal

Folder 7 History... (continued)
Includes Machine Tools and Gages; Plant Security and Safety; Ordnance Field Units, Their organization and Combat History

Folder 8 Original Transcript of History - Augusta Arsenal published as a 3 volume set. Collection of records relating to the Augusta Arsenal (GA) from 1943-1955. Report # CAS 15-61-Gx-OC  Establishment to November 11, 1918

Folder 9 History... (continued)
Includes history from Industrial Mobilization including organization, Research & Development; Facilities; Ordnance Facilities, Government operated; Inspection Problems and Practices; Small Arms, including machine guns

Folder 10 History...(continued)
Field Artillery; Railway and Seacoast Artillery; Motor Transport; Field Service, Storage, Maintenance & Depots; Conversions and Substitute Materials; Memo regarding operation of the Fuel Central Shop

Folder 11 History...(continued)
Fire Control

Folder 12 History...(continued)
Training and Personnel; Legal and Fiscal; Machine Tools & Gages; Ordnance Field   Units, Their Organization and Combat History

Folder 13 March 1, 1943 - June 25, 1943
Augusta Arsenal Salute, a weekly publication of the Augusta Arsenal. Contains news and human interest articles during wartime

Folder 14  July 2, 1943 - March 4, 1944
Augusta Arsenal Salute...(continued)

Folder 15 Miscellaneous publications from the Arsenal from 1948-1954
 

Folder 1 Historical Report (Work Copies).  2 September 1945 to 30 June 1951.  (2 items)

Folder  2 Addendum to Semi-Annual Historical Report, 1 July - 31 December 1952. (1 item)

Folder  3  Semiannual Historical Report.  1 January - 30 June 1953. (4 items)

Folder  4 Historical Summary, Augusta Arsenal.  1 July - 31 December 1954. (See also:   Box 7 Closure File) (25 items)

Folder 5 Historical Summary, Augusta Arsenal.  1 January - 28 February 1955. (See also: Box 7  Closure File) (1 item)

Folder 6 Chart of Key Personnel (30 August 1948); Organization Chart Augusta Arsenal 1 May 1954.
 

Folder 1 July 1943 - September 1944
Excellent inventories and disposition of records held at the Augusta Arsenal 
to 1943.  These records were inventoried and shipped to Curtis Bay, Maryland for 
storage and ultimate distribution to the National Archives. 
 

Folder 2 August 1940 - May 1954
Rosters of civilian employees by division dated 10/2/47 and 2/19/48. List of female employees dated 1/20/42 and list of employees by position and rate of pay for 8/9/40. Arsenal telephone book dated. 

Folder 3 May 1922 - January 1948
Memoranda concerning arsenal personnel. Letters to and from the fifth civil service commission; emergency employee appointment authorization; hours of labor.

Folder 4 Personnel folder of Anson L. Clark 
Clark was a civilian employee of the Augusta Arsenal. 
Personnel file not microfilmed.

Folder 5 Clark personnel folder, continued
Personnel file not microfilmed.

Folder 1 1903,1904, 1908 (3 items)
Easement Village of Summerville to U. S. Government June 1, 1903; May 4, 1904 report on the Augusta Arsenal from William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance; August 21, 1908 report from D. A. Lyle, Ordnance Department

Folder 2 February 1923 - February 1924
Letter file of Colonel H. B. Jordan, USA ORD. Letters include subjects of ordnance repair and personnel matters.

Folder 3 March 1924 - April 1924
Letter file, continued, of Colonel H. B. Jordan. Establishment of Rains Memorial at Stone Mountain.

Folder 4 May 1924 - June 1924
Letter file, continued, of Col. Jordan

Folder 5 Dec. 19, 1933
Letter from Lt. Col. Charles G. Mettler to Maj. Gen. C.C. Williams addressing the 
problems with cotton farming in the South. Mettler promotes socialized farming 
citing Russia as an example that has succeeded.

Folder 6 Papers pertaining to the operation of Augusta Arsenal 1/1936 - 4/1952
Includes Jan. 9, 1936 lecture before organized reserves by Major General W. H. Tschappat.

Folder 7 September 9, 1959
Quitclaim Deed, U. S. Government to City of Augusta.

Folder 8 (undated)
Documents relating to the mission of the arsenal. Also  A Plan for Civil Defense in Augusta.

Folder 1 September 1943
Letters and telegrams supporting the retention of the arsenal at Augusta; copies of letters to congress and influential business leaders from Augusta Chamber of Commerce, descriptions of buildings and workers, petition of residents of Summerville about noise at arsenal, published report about retention of the arsenal.

Folder 2 January 1947 - January 1950
Closure... (continued)

Folder 3 April 1951 - August 1954
Closure... (continued)

Folder 4 September 1954 - March 1955
Closure... (continued) 

Folder 5 Miscellaneous Notes (not microfilmed)

Folder 6 September 1943 - February 1955  (not microfilmed)
Newspaper Clippings

Buildings and Grounds:

Folder 7 1941 - 1955 (3 documents)
Buildings: improvements and construction; schedule of buildings at arsenal 91955); undated remembrance of Miss Heslen, a former arsenal employee.
 

Folder 8 1940-1954 (8 documents)
Cemetery: includes a 1954 letter to Col. Himes listing army personnel interred in the Post Cemetery; four scaled drawing of the cemetery (dated 1911, 1921, 1923, 1928); article by Mrs. Pfadenhauer titled ...the trumpet shall sound....

Folder 9 February 6, 1947 - April 25, 1947
Nine Hole Golf Course: miscellaneous letters and reports pertaining to the restoration of the nine holes golf course; includes a confidential letter from Sen. Richard Russell about a War Department investigation into the cost associated with the restoration.
 

Folder 1
Miscellaneous collection of odds and ends. Used postal stamps, transcriptions of stories, list of officers of Richmond County Historical Society, study questions for the 1934 Georgia Bar examination, and information about the Swedenborg Foundation. 

Folder 2
Information about cannon on display at the Augusta Arsenal prior to closure in 1954. Inquiry from Fort Sumter about artillery pieces, dated 1976. 

Folder 3
Miscellaneous publications. Retention of Augusta Arsenal, 1947; The Augusta Arsenal: 1816-1954; The Augusta Arsenal: 1816 -1850; Augusta Arsenal Daily Bulletin 9 Dec 1948 and 17 Aug. 1949; Arms For the Love of America, by Irving Berlin (musical score); Basic Chemicals for Explosives, Article IV, Fixed Nitrogen, July 5, 1924; Rock Island [Illinois] War Study of 1921. 

Folder 4 1939-1944 
Letters (to and from ) Ruby Mabry McCrary covering historical topics and requests for training, and the Augusta Arsenal Salute. 

Folder 5 1945-1960 
Letters pertaining to work with the Georgia Historical commission 

Folder 6 1963 
Letters... (continued) 

Folder 7 1964- 
Letters... (continued) 

Folder 8
Fort Gordon Material. Post telephone books, lists of officers assigned to Fort Gordon (1962), public information articles, information concerning the turnover of the sun dial to Fort Gordon, and one map of the post dated 1943. 

Folder 9
Newsletters, church bulletins and other Augusta collections. 

Folder 1
Research used by Mrs. Pfadenhauer to write her histories of the arsenal: hand written and typewritten notes, transcriptions of some of the original letters, drafts of list of commanding officers of Augusta Arsenal, typescript articles published in the Augusta Chronicle and Augusta Herald; copy of Confederate Military History by Joseph T. Derry; original letters from local businessmen and citizens concerning history of arsenal; Rules and regulations for the Augusta Ordnance Depot; information for the reports of ordnance historians and Ordnance Historical Advisory Committee. 

Folder 2
Research notebook compiled by Mrs. Pfadenhauer while writing her histories. Contains the same type of information listed in Folder 1. Includes more transcription of the old letters; file reference gives location of old water well and story about body of a Confederate soldier being discovered in the basement of the administration building; letters giving meaning of Greek inscription on arsenal sun dial. 

Folder 3 
Copies of published and unpublished articles by Ruby Mabry McCrary. Topics include the "ghosts" at the arsenal, the Sun Dial (original), the William T. Sherman myth, historical summary of the Augusta Arsenal, historical sites in Augusta, GA, cemeteries at the arsenal, women workers at the arsenal, the "white house" in Augusta, presentation of replica sun dial to Augusta College. 

Folder 4 
Drafts of Mrs. Pfadenhauer's History of the Augusta Arsenal 

Folder 5
Copies of articles by Ruby Mabry McCrary about the history of the Augusta Arsenal including a "condensed" version, some with editing marks 

Folder 6
Working copy of History - Augusta Arsenal Georgia by Ruby Mabry McCrary covering the period November 12, 1918 to June 30, 1939. There are five sections: Plant Security and Safety; Legal and Fiscal; Ordnance Field Units; Machine Tools and Gages. 

Folder 7
Working copy of the official history (See Folder 6) used by Ruby Mabry McCrary. Marked "Restricted" it contains notes and corrections. 

Folder 1
1898,1913

Folder 2
1930's

Folder 3
1940-1943

Folder 4
1944-1949

Folder 5
1950's

Folder 6
1960's

Folder 7
1980's

Folder 8
No dates available
 

Folder 1 
Fort Gordon photographs (43 items)

Folder 2 
Augusta Arsenal photographs - includes pictures of buildings and personnel.
(40 items)

Folder 3 
Photographs of tombstones in Walker Cemetery (probably in the 1960's or 70's)
(10 items)

Folder 4 
Augusta area photographs - includes George Walton home; Signer's Monument
(21 items)

Folder 5 
Personal photographs of Mrs. Pfadenhauer
(8 items)

Folder 6 Maps of the Augusta Arsenal 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1952
(9 items)

Folder 7 
Maps of Augusta area includes vicinity map of Augusta, GA from 1937; Station Map - Tracks and Structure - 1916 
(2 items)

Folder 1 
Documents written by Mrs. Pfadenhauer

Folder 2 
Booklet titled, George Walton, American Leader and Patriot Extraordinary, researched and written by Ruby Mabry McCrary Pfadenhauer.

Folder 3 
Personal Correspondence.
Includes letters from Sen. Herman Talmadge and Col. Wallace H. Dawson, Jr. concerning Mrs. Pfadenhauer's continuing interest in the arsenal and its history.

Folder 4 1925-1950 
Personnel papers of Ruby Mabry McCrary consisting of performance evaluations, job descriptions, promotions, identification cards, personnel action sheets, and a letter of recommendation.

Folder 5 1952-1963
Personnel papers of  Ruby Mabry McCrary (continued)

Folder 6 
Miscellaneous
Includes a boot pattern ca. 1904 and World War II ration booklets.
 

Folder 1 
Papers relating to her membership in Daughters of the American Revolution.
Included are documents pertaining to the organization of the new College Hill Chapter in Fall 1976 (See Folder 3)

Folder 2 
Genealogical research on the Mabry, Tompkins and Pfadenhauer families.

Folder 3 
Genealogical research... (continued)

Folder 4 
Genealogical research... (continued)
Contains resume of Mr. Herman Pfadenhauer and will of Charles McCrary;
two diaries of Mrs. Pfadenhauer dated from 1933.

Folder 5 
Document dated 7 August 1879 containing a copy of "An Act For Establishing an University Paped (?)" January 25, 1819. Attached is a waxed seal from State of Virginia. (Probably from Dr. Mabry.)

Folder 6 
Genealogical research... (continued)
Speech given by S.T. Mabry in 1889, personnel record of Stephen Thayer Mabry, three letters (two dating to 1852 and one from 1863) from Dr. Mabry.

Folder 7 
Genealogical research...(continued)
German families in Augusta; St. Matthew's History; The Lutheran Church of the Resurrection: Yearbook 1980 Directory 1981

Folder 8 
Miscellaneous legal documents including security deed and correspondence (to and from lawyers).
 

Folder 1 
"Army Ordnance Public Relations" (May 1, 1943); "Solder Shows" (July, 1945);

Folder 2 
Guide to the Writing of American Military History (1951)

Folder 3 
Famous Writers Talent Test (1961); Writing a History of Your Local Church (1981)

Folder 4
Duplicates of photographs and plot plans collected by Mrs. Pfadenhauer.

Folder 5
Duplicates: Augusta Arsenal Telephone Directory (May 1954); Augusta Arsenal Ordnance (1816-1950); Augusta Arsenal Ordnance (1816-1954)

Folder 6
Articles written by Ruby Pfadenhauer about the cemeteries on the Augusta Arsenal grounds (See Series I; Box 7, Folder 8)   

Folder 7
Articles written by Ruby Pfadenhauer about the Augusta Arsenal sundial

Folder 8
Article written by Ruby Pfadenhauer about the Arsenal's history; article about the arsenal ghost

Folder 9
Articles written by Ruby Pfadenhauer about Sherman's visit to Augusta; includes copy of Mrs. Pfadenhauer article on Sherman's alleged visits to Augusta published in the Augusta Herald Nov. 25, 1943 

Folder 10
Duplicates of miscellaneous articles written by Ruby Pfadenhauer