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Buffington, Adelbert Rinaldo, 1837-

Military officer; born in Wheeling, Va., Nov. 22, 1837; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1861. and commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the ordnance department: and was appointed chief of ordnance with the rank of brigadier-general in 1889. From 1881 till 1892 he was in charge of the national armory at Springfield, Mass. General Buffington is the inventor of a magazine fire-arm, carriages for light and heavy ordnance, and the nitre and manganese method for bluing iron and the steel surface of small-arms.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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