1865

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• June 9: Thomas Green Clemson is paroled at Shreveport, Louisiana, after serving four years in the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, CSA, during which time he worked in Arkansas and Texas developing nitrate mines for explosives.
• July 3: Major Mark Bernard Hardin, CSA, Clemson's first Professor of Chemistry, is released as a Confederate prisoner of war from Johnson's Island, Lake Erie.
• Major Mark Bernard Hardin takes a job in New York City as an analytical chemist for two years after the close of the war, until returning to the Virginia Military Institute as full Professor of Chemistry in 1867, which position he held until 1890.

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1864

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