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I dont think I will ever stop learning about the WBTS, there are just so many things to study. Organ Cave, W. Va. If I understand the story correctly, this mine and its original hoppers are as if the soldiers left just yesterday. Also the story goes that 1100 Confederates mined the saltpeter as a yankee incampment was on the top side. The cave was used since before 1835 as a source for saltpeter for the manufacture of gunpowder. During the WBTS, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Robert E. Lee ( Lee knew of this mine from a visit he made there in the 1830s) again mined the cave for saltpeter. The cave today has the nations largest collection of Civil War-era saltpeter hoppers. Studies have shown the cave dirt is high in calcium nitrate, which was turned into potassium nitrate using these hoppers.[
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:27:29 +0000

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