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The journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878

Author: Josiah Gorgas; Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the US Army, and later, after marrying Amelia Gayle, daughter of a former Alabama governor, joined the Confederacy. After the Civil War he served as President of the University of Alabama until ill health forced him to resign. His journals, maintained between 1857 and 1878, reflect the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Personal narratives, Confederate
Named Person: Josiah Gorgas
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Josiah Gorgas; Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
ISBN: 0817307702 9780817307707
OCLC Number: 30664967
Description: xxxix, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Genealogy of the family of Josiah and Amelia Gorgas --
Prologue --
Antebellum : January 1857-March 1861. Her affectionate companionship is sufficient for me --
My great regret is the wandering life we are obliged to lead --
Civil War : June 1862-May 1865. Brilliant hopes which centered in the possession of Richmond --
The Confederacy totters to its destruction --
Has war ever been carried on like this --
Such a war, so relentless and so repugnant --
Can we hold out much longer? --
The prospect is growing darker and darker about us --
Reconstruction : May 1865-July 1878. I am as one walking in a dream --
Our works progress slowly --
Harrassed with debt and surrounded with troubles --
Our company affairs are very much embarrassed --
I am now daily teaching --
I was not well pleased with the action of the Board of Trustees --
Epilogue --
Biographical directory --
Manuscript sources --
Printed sources.
Responsibility: edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins ; with a foreword by Frank E. Vandiver.
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Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the US Army, and later, after marrying Amelia Gayle, daughter of a former Alabama governor, joined the Confederacy. After the Civil War he served as President of the University of Alabama until ill health forced him to resign. His journals, maintained between 1857 and 1878, reflect the family's economic successes and failures, detail the course of the South through the Civil War, and describe the ordeal of Reconstruction. An added dimension is the view of Victorian Family life as Gorgas explored his feeling about aspects of parental responsibility and transmission of values to his children - a rarely documented account from the male perspective.

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