Letter to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1862 July 30.

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Letter to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1862 July 30.

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Gorgas, Ordnance Bureau, Richmond, writes to Maupin on improving the "quality of Nitric Acid made at the Confederate Laboratory upon information of its impurity conveyed in your letter."

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Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883

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General and Chief of Ordnance for the Confederate States Army; later, president of the University of Alabama. From the description of Extracts from my notes written chiefly soon after the close of the war, [ca. 1865]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29452282 Born in Dauphin County, Pa., Josiah Gorgas graduated from West Point in 1841 and was assigned to the ordnance corps. He served in the Mexican-American War and was promoted to captain in 1855. In 1853, he mar...

Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871

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Maupin was chemistry professor at the University of Virginia from 1853-1871; Sommerville never matriculated. From the description of Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville, 1861 October 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55858107 From the description of Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville [manuscript], 1837-1870. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647896588 Biography to be added later. From the guide to the Maupin-Washington P...