Shacklock & Company remains an example of how war brings all trades together in the effort to build a well-oiled war machine.  W. D. Shacklock conducted business as a Memphis Jeweler.  When the war commenced, he put his trade to use for the Confederate war effort.  His firm manufactured fine artillary implements and the sighting of cannon.  Shacklock & Company sighted a number of cannon at Columbus, Kentucky, and at other fortifications located along the Mississippi River.  While records show that the firm casted no cannon of its own, a cannon sight base does survive which is marked "SHACKLOCK & CO., MEMPHIS, TENN."
 

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