Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of the Ordnance Bureau during the
American Civil War
(1861–1865). Born in Pennsylvania, Gorgas was a veteran of the Mexican War
(1846–1848) who married into a prominent political family in Alabama. His new
Southern connections, along with dissatisfactions with his army career, helped
fuel his decision to join the Confederacy. In 1861, he was the only experienced
ordnance officer available to Confederate president Jefferson Davis's new government, and he
almost. . .
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