Atlanta Rolling Mill

[1] Their specialty was re-rolling worn out railroad rails but during the American Civil War it also rolled out cannon, iron rail, and 2-inch-thick (51 mm) sheets of iron to clad the CSS Virginia for the Confederate navy.

[1] It was bought out by Charleston, SC interests in 1863 and became known as the Confederate Rolling Mill when it produced the former products as well as cannon.

Hood set fire to 81 ammunition train cars parked outside the mill to prevent them from being acquired by General Sherman.

The events were so loud that Sherman himself heard the explosions from approximately 23 miles away at Lovejoy's Station.

[1] It was located on the current site of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill (now residential lofts) in Cabbagetown on the south side of the Georgia Railroad just east of Oakland Cemetery.