When did the Confederacy start issuing pistol cartridges?

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This box of Colt Army Cartridges is in the Galveston TX Rosenberg Library Museum collection. It is labeled the Laboratory of the Confederate Army, but is not dated. Does anyone have info on when such cartridges began to be issued?

Colt Piatol Cartridges Rosenberg Museumm.jpg
 
From the Richmond Arsenal there were issued between July 1, 1861, and January 1, 1865, 341 Columbiads and siege-guns, 1306 field-pieces of all descriptions, 921,441 rounds of artillery ammunition of all classes, 323,231 infantry arms, 34,067 cavalry carbines, 6074 pistols, and nearly 72,500,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, besides many thousand articles of other ordnance and ordnance stores.
source:https://www.civilwarhome.com/confederateordnance.html
 
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