...ess and usefulness may remain to him. The trustees, with great delicacy, made him librarian and Mrs. Gorgas matron, and provided a house for them. On the 15th day of May, 1883, at Tuskaloosa, Alabama , General Gorgas died surrounded by his family and his friends. The following minute on his death was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, at the annual meeting held in Tus...