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George Washington Rains (1817-March 21, 1898) Confederate States Army officer, born in North Carolina. Early in his career, Rains taught at the U.S. Military Academy and fought with distinction in the Mexican War (1846-48). When the American Civil War broke out, he was placed in charge of gunpowder production for the Confederacy and commissioned a lieutenant colonel. Rains developed a modern process to prepare niter for gunpowder and oversaw the development of the Confederate Powder Works in Atlanta, Georgia, to manufacture ammunition for the Confederacy. The plant also produced the contact fuses, developed by Rains's brother Gabriel James Rains, that were used in percussion mines.

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rdf:type	Historical Figure
rdfs:label	George W. Rains
rdfs:comment	George Washington Rains (1817-March 21, 1898) Confederate States Army officer, born in North Carolina. Early in his career, Rains taught at the U.S. Military Academy and fought with distinction in the Mexican War (1846-48). When the American Civil War broke out, he was placed in charge of gunpowder production for the Confederacy and commissioned a lieutenant colonel. Rains developed a modern process to prepare niter for gunpowder and oversaw the development of the Confederate Powder Works in Atlanta, Georgia, to manufacture ammunition for the Confederacy. The plant also produced the contact fuses, developed by Rains's brother Gabriel James Rains, that were used in percussion mines.
dcterms:subject	Died of Natural Causes (OTL) Historical Figures Americans Confederate Soldiers of the American Civil War 1890s Deaths (OTL) Confederates The Guns of the South Characters Soldiers of the Second American Revolution 1810s Births (OTL)
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Name	George W. Rains
ImageSize	150(xsd:integer)
Cause of Death	Natural causes
Affiliations	Confederate States Army
Occupation	Soldier, Engineer Soldier, Chemist
Death	1898(xsd:integer)
Birth	1817(xsd:integer)
Nationality	Confederate States (The Guns of the South) United States
abstract	George Washington Rains (1817-March 21, 1898) Confederate States Army officer, born in North Carolina. Early in his career, Rains taught at the U.S. Military Academy and fought with distinction in the Mexican War (1846-48). When the American Civil War broke out, he was placed in charge of gunpowder production for the Confederacy and commissioned a lieutenant colonel. Rains developed a modern process to prepare niter for gunpowder and oversaw the development of the Confederate Powder Works in Atlanta, Georgia, to manufacture ammunition for the Confederacy. The plant also produced the contact fuses, developed by Rains's brother Gabriel James Rains, that were used in percussion mines.
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