Alice,

Regarding these items:

>>>>In the message of Gov. Harris delivered to the Legislature on 23 Oct 1861, the Gov. stated "They (Military and Financial Board) have also made liberal advances to manufacturers of powder, to enable them to increase the capacity of their machinery to the highest degree of efficiency,and, under the supervision of Samuel D. Morgan, Esq., established a percussion cap factory, which has already yielded to the Confederate States more than twelve million of caps, and is now producing over two hundred and twenty-five thousand per day.">>>

The main powder supplier was the Sycamore Mill up in Cheatham County near Ashland City. It made powder after the war well into the 20th Century. The large powder crushing iron wheel at Centennial Park in Nashville was brought to the Sycamore Mill from the old, and massive, Confederate Powder Works at Augusta, GA after the war. There was also a smaller powder supplier down near Manchester.

>>>>"I wonder why the arsenal was relocated to Atlanta and not Chattanooga. Chattanooga would have been an ideal location for supplying the Tennessee troops and other Confederate states because of the railroad and river. Maybe it was sent to Atlanta, deeper in the South, thinking it would be safer there?"