The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau was a civilian government bureau to provide the Confederate States of America with needed materials such as copper...
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Potassium nitrate (redirect from Nitre bed)
saltpeter. As a result, the Nitre and Mining Bureau was set up to encourage local production, including by nitre beds and by providing excrement to government...
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Department Medical Corps Nitre and Mining Bureau: Established by an act the Confederate Congress on April 11, 1862. The Niter and Mining Bureau was initially a...
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(state) portal American Civil War portal Nitre and Mining Bureau American Civil War spies Black Dispatches Bureau of Military Information Confederate Army...
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O. Smith has determined that two companies of the Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau, District No. 7, were active in Sullivan County. Scott County,...
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History of gunpowder (section Mining)
overseas. The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau was formed to produce gunpowder for the army and the navy from domestic resources. Nitre is the English spelling...
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Confederate Government Civil War units (category Military units and formations of the Confederate States Army)
(Mead's Regiment of Partisan Rangers) Miscellaneous Indian Records Nitre and Mining Bureau, War Department, C.S.A., Ochiltree's Detachment of Recruits (Detachment...
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also mining Nickajack Cave in nearby Marion County. In 1862 he quit mining at Lookout Mountain Cave and rented the cave to the Confederate Nitre and Mining...
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the Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau. Page 85 of the February 6, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly shows a drawing of the cave entrance and some of the saltpeter...
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September 26, 1862 and lieutenant colonel, CSA, Nitre and Mining Corps, May 28, 1863. St. John resigned from the Nitre and Mining Bureau on January 31, 1864...
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