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The Charleston Arsenal was a United States Army arsenal facility in Charleston, South Carolina, seized by state militia at the outbreak of the American Civil War. On June 21, 1996, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Porter Military Academy. The arsenal was constructed in 1841 near the intersection of Ashley Avenue and Mill Street in Charleston. It served as a storage place for weapons, ordnance, and ammunition for the U.S. Army in antebellum days. (An earlier Federal arsenal, the Old Citadel, was taken out of service and after became a part of The Citadel (military college).) The Charleston arsenal produced a considerable amount of artillery and small arms ammunition during the Mexican-American War and up to the Civil War. With the secession of South Carolina in late 1860, it became a target for Confederate sympathizers and local militia. South Carolina troops seized the arsenal in late December, and the Confederates held it for much of the war. Josiah Gorgas had the arsenal enlarged and modernized with the installation of steam power. For a time, it was used a barracks to house Confederate troops, including the 26th South Carolina. The arsenal was finally retaken by Union troops in 1865 when Charleston finally fell. On July 16, 1866, the U.S. government designated the site as a Federal Military Reservation, but in 1879 the Army closed the arsenal. The building and land were sold in 1888, to the Porter Military Academy which occupied the site until it build a new campus west of the Ashley River, and in 1963 the site became part of the Medical University of South Carolina. ==Waring Historical Library== The building now houses the Waring Historical Library, the special collections and rare book library for the Medical University of South Carolina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://waring.library.musc.edu/ )〕 The collections include books, journals, manuscript items and museum artifacts about the history of the health sciences. The library is open for visitors by appointment. The Library also includes the Macaulay Museum of Dental History, which features a collection of dental memorabilia, dental chairs and a traveling dentist's chest of the Civil War era. The museum is open for tour by appointment with the Library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://waring.library.musc.edu/macaulay.php )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charleston Arsenal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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