G.W. McGee document, 1862 Oct. 13.

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G.W. McGee document, 1862 Oct. 13.

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This document issued by the "CSNM Bureau" (apparently the Confederate States Nitre and Mining Bureau) from Knoxville, Tennessee October 13, 1862, authorized McGee to manufacture nitre. While he was so employed, this document protected him from interference by "Enrolling or Recruiting Officers" trying to conscript troops for the Confederate Army. A note concerning the donation with the document states McGee's father ran a store at Eagles Nest on the Holston River in Tennessee and that the McGees evidently made gunpowder.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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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...

McGee, G. W., fl. 1862.

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