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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.
This is a list of Confederate arms manufacturers. The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by thirteen Southern states that had declared their secession from the United States.
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.
Example of British Colonial ecclesiastical architecture. 21: ... Tredegar Iron Works: Tredegar Iron Works. December 22, 1977 ... Landmark name Image Date designated
The Tredegar Iron works could produce both solid shot and shell, and since it was believed that Virginia would face only wooden ships, she was given only the explosive shell. [29] The armor plating, originally meant to be 1 in (25 mm) thick, was replaced by double plates, each 2 in (51 mm) thick, backed by 24 in (61 cm) of iron and pine.
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 Confederate States manufactured an estimated 84 cast iron 3-inch rifles, at least 61 of them at the Tredegar Iron Works; [9] several appear to be imitations of the U.S. Ordnance Department design. [10] However, the Tredegar guns were manufactured with cast iron and earned a bad reputation for bursting in action. [11]
Tredegar Works may refer to: Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia; Tredegar Iron and Coal Company in Wales This page was last edited on 17 ...