At its close they had developed a mineral wealth which ages could not exhaust, and had built up here, as I have said, a manufactory of guns, great and small, with which only three or four in the United States could be compared.
Reid notes the development of mineral wealth and manufacturing capabilities in the South by the end of the war.
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