Josiah Gorgas Papers, . 1857-1878

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Josiah Gorgas Papers, ., 1857-1878

Josiah Gorgas Papers, . 1857-1878

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Josiah Gorgas was a United States and later Confederate ordnance officer. The collection contains diaries, 1857-1864 and 1864-1878, of Josiah Gorgas, describing his life as a United States army ordnance officer stationed at Augusta, Me., Charleston, S.C., and Frankford Arsenal, Pa.; as Confederate Chief of Ordnance in Richmond, Va.; and after the war as a private citizen. The diaries describe home and family life, weather and antebellum social life in New England, the growing sectional political tensions, and, after joining the Confederate cause, economic, political, and social conditions in Richmond, Va., where he spent most of the war years. After the war, Gorgas managed the Brierfield Iron Works in Alabama and then was professor of engineering and president of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., 1867-1877. Also included is a letter, 1863, from Colonel Hugh K. Aiken, C.S.A., concerning the sale of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad and the exchange of Confederate prisoners of war.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection