Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883
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found: Ploughshares into swords, 1994:CIP t.p. (Josiah Gorgas)
found: LC database, 4/11/94(hdg.: Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883)
found: Encyclopedia of Alabama website, viewed January 13, 2015(Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883); career army officer and chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance; born on July 1, 1818, in Running Pumps, Pennsylvania; secured him...appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...graduated...in 1841; chose to serve in the U.S. Ordnance Corps; met Amelia Gayle, daughter of a former Alabama governor...the couple married. They had six children: William Crawford, Jessie, Mary Gayle, Christine Amelia, Maria Bayne, and Richard Haynsworth; resigned from the U.S. Army effective April 3, 1861; joined the Confederacy...became chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance on April 8, 1861; In 1869 he became the headmaster at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee; July 1878...elected president of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and he left Sewanee; in July 1879...trustees created the post of university librarian for him; he died in Tuscaloosa on May 15, 1883.
found: Report of Wm. H. Peters, commissioner, appointed by the governor to make an inventory of property taken from the U.S., 1861:page 125 (J. Gorgas, Lt. Col. Chief of Ordnance)
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1994-04-11: new
2019-04-20: revised
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