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The Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works is located in the restored pattern building and offers three floors of exhibits, an interactive map table, a film about the Civil War battles around Richmond, a bookstore, and interpretive NPS rangers on site daily to provide programs and to aid visitors.
Curiously, the Kentucky unit's howitzer was cast iron and probably a captured piece. [32] To take one example of a Confederate unit, the 4th Battery Washington Artillery (Eshleman's) was armed with two 12-pounder howitzers and two 6-pounder field guns. [33] The Battle of Gettysburg on 1–3 July 1863 was also fought in the East. At Gettysburg ...
Joseph Reid Anderson (February 16, 1813 – September 7, 1892) was an American civil engineer, industrialist, politician and soldier.During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate general, and his Tredegar Iron Company was a major source of munitions and ordnance for the Confederate States Army. [1]
The American Civil War Museum is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War.The museum operates three sites: The White House of the Confederacy, the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, and the American Civil War Museum at Appomattox.
In 1800, the company was renamed the Tredegar Iron Company, named in honour of the Tredegar Estate at Tredegar House and Tredegar Park in Newport. The company was taken over by the Harfords of Ebbw Vale in 1818. [3] It was expanded in the late 1830s and early 1840s, producing significant volumes of rails, largely for export.
In the period before the Civil War, a U.S. Army light artillery battery was organized with four M1841 6-pounder field guns and two M1841 12-pounder howitzers. [1] The field gun fired solid iron cannon balls in a flat trajectory to smash its targets [2] while the howitzer was designed to lob hollow shells into massed formations or fortifications. [3]
78.375 in (199.1 cm) Length from the end of the breech to the muzzle: 72.875 in (185.1 cm) Length from the rear of the knob to the center of the trunnions: 31.5 in (80.0 cm) Length of the wrought iron band: 13.0 in (33.0 cm) Diameter of the trunnions: 3.69 in (94 mm) Thickness of metal at the wrought iron band: 8.47 in (215 mm)
Tredegar Iron Works. The chief ironworks of the Confederacy, and a big factor in the decision to make Richmond its capital. It supplied about half the artillery used ...