48/80 The complete lack of the South in industries other than its staple products is well illustrated by a request from Col. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance to the Confederacy, to Mason, urging him to secure _three_ ironworkers in England and send them over. He wrote, "The reduction of ores with coke seems not to be understood here" (Mason Papers. 13, 1861).] [Footnote 664: F.O., Am., Vol.843.No.48.Confidential. |