Anaxagoras
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What if Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance for the Confederacy during the Civil War, had remained loyal to the Union in 1861? He was a Pennsylvanian, after all.
Gorgas performed logistical miracles in establishing arsenals and ironworks throughout the Confederacy during the war and planned a critical role in managing government-owned blockade runners to bring in badly needed supplies. I don't think anyone else likely to have the position could have done nearly as well as he did. Without Gorgas, it wouldn't surprise me if the war ends months, if not a year or more, earlier than it did IOTL.
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Gorgas performed logistical miracles in establishing arsenals and ironworks throughout the Confederacy during the war and planned a critical role in managing government-owned blockade runners to bring in badly needed supplies. I don't think anyone else likely to have the position could have done nearly as well as he did. Without Gorgas, it wouldn't surprise me if the war ends months, if not a year or more, earlier than it did IOTL.
Thoughts?