Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter 1864 October 4

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Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter 1864 October 4

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Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.

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W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

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Confederate States of America. Nitre and Mining Bureau

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Niter (saltpeter), a key ingredient in gunpowder and other explosives, was mined in caves in various places in the South. Early in the war, several officers began informally overseeing the mining operations. Niter for the manufacture of gunpowder, copper, lead, iron, coal, zinc, and other such materials as might be required for the prosecution of the war. Those activities became more formalized after 16 June 1863, when the First Confederate Congress passed an act authorizing the creation of a fo...