Owned and operated by Joseph Reid Anderson, the Tredegar Iron Works were
located on the James River, where Fourth street would meet the river if it
extended that far south. During its operation, it produced 1199 cannon for the
Confederacy as well as armor plating and boilers for iron-clads.
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/31/1860; notes on the wool manufacturers of
Virginia, especially Crenshaw Woolen mills. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/4/1861; notice of improvements at Tredegar Iron Works |
|
New
York Herald |
1/21/1861; 1000 kegs of powder from Tredegar
arrive at Charleston |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
2/8/1861; detailed account of Governor
Letcher's inspection visit to the Armory and Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; account of the response
in Richmond to the fall of Fort Sumter; extensive celebration and
flag-raising at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/15/1861; excellent description of the
reaction in Richmond to the news of the fall of Ft. Sumter - description of
parade to Tredegar Iron Works and Capitol Square - notes disappointed
reaction to Letcher's remarks, and the raising and subsequent lowering of
the Confederate flag on the Capitol roof |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
Battalion elects officers |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/27/1861; p. 3, Tredegar Iron Works Battalion elects
officers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/20/1861; two attempts to destroy
the Tredegar Iron Works by fire |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/22/1861; incorrect threat of
fire to the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs timber to build large building (probably the new gun foundry) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs carriage wheels |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs Wheelwrights and Blacksmiths |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861;
member of the Tredegar Battalion is wounded by a bursting gun |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; more on the wounding of a
member of the Tredegar Battalion by a bursting gun |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Wood Turners and Pattern
Makers are needed at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Tredegar Battalion
(numbering 360) parades through the streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; description of target
practice by the Tredegar Battalion after their parade |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/6/1861; description of the celebration of the
4th of July in Richmond - Tredegar Battalion parades on Capitol Square,
along with the Thomas Artillery, Public Guard, and Washington Artillery |
|
Charleston Mercury |
7/8/1861; war news - describes that Fourth of
July parade of the Tredegar Battalion as well as notes on the political
situation |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; ad from Co. A,
Tredegar Battalion expressing thanks to various persons |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/11/1861; Cannon made at Bellona Arsenal, and
lying on the basin bank, have been spiked by some "Yankee spy" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; Runaway slave from the
Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/29/1861; notice from Tredegar that all orders
will be paid in cash |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
8/16/1861; amazingly descriptive article
describing a traveler's arrival to Richmond and the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/24/1861; note from Co. B,
Tredegar Bn., thanking J. R. Anderson and others for contributing towards
uniforming the company |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/6/1861; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar Iron Works)
promoted to Brigadier General |
|
Charleston Mercury |
9/12/1861; two large Tredegar Dahlgren cannon
delivered to Charleston |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/18/1861; locomotive "J. R.
Anderson" is on the new tracks connecting the RF&P and Petersburg RRs |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/28/1861; excellent and lengthy
description of the Tredegar Iron Works - describes the manufacture of iron
products and mentions the Tredegar Battalion |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/1/1861; excellent (and lengthy) description
of the operations of the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
Tredegar adv. for
4 good mules |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/17/1861; lengthy description of the Crenshaw
Woolen Mills (located among the Tredegar works) - notes on Richmond's
industrial capacity |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/18/1861;
list of public
schools & expenses. Includes Lancastrian School ($600) & Tredegar Free
School ($250) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/22/1861;
Tredegar adv. for
certain skilled laborers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1861;
List of
contributors to St. Charles Hosp. including $395 from J. R. Anderson &
Tredegar Employees |
|
Charleston Mercury |
12/2/1861; war news - notes that Tredegar has
started a wire factory |
|
New
York Herald |
12/23/1861; non-specific description of harsh
treatment of Union POWs in Richmond; notes that Tredegar has produced a
submarine to operate against the blockade |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion to have full dress uniform drill |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/28/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion looked good on parade |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/13/1862;
J. R. Anderson adv for blacksmiths |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/21/1861; great stuff on the Tredegar Battalion from R. S. Archer to city
council |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/26/1862; Co. B, Tredegar
Battalion presents English sword to Capt. Alvis. Maj. R. S. Archer makes
speech. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/7/1862; Tredegar-made
brass piece for Cropper’s Co. on display, Capitol Square |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/10/1862; Wm. Carson, Tredegar operative, in trouble involving Ann Beazley
& “house of ill fame” in Butchertown |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/10/1862; Tredegar wants
to buy 100,000 feet of timber |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1862; Tredegar Iron Works are
looking to buy a lot of Oak and Hickory timber |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/15/1862; Tredegar Battalion will assemble this afternoon on Gamble’s Hill |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/21/1862; Tredegar
advertises for 40 negroes |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/25/1862; J. F. Goodwin & J. E. Tanner are raising a company of flying
artillery to be attached to the Tredegar Battalion |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/25/1862; paper advocates using the cannon that are on the street corners
to be recast |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/3/1862; Tredegar wants to buy 50-100 young mules, hire machinists, furnace
managers, colliers and blacksmiths, and hire 100-150 negroes |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/3/1862; three ads from Tredegar
Iron Works - they need 150 negroes to work at blast furnaces in Botetourt
county, 50-100 mules, and machinists and blacksmiths |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/7/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades on Capitol Square – more than 200 men.
One company has 12-pdr howitzers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/7/1862; Tredegar Artillery to organize |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/11/1862; letter from Mrs. Maria G. Clopton begging metals for Tredegar for
gunboat construction. Mrs. George T. Booker on committee |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/11/1862; Gen. J. R. Anderson ad for male cook for field duty |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/12/1862; old cannon on street corners should be recycled – bell in steeple
of Dr. Reed’s Church sent to the Armory to be recycled |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/19/1862; Tredegar Battalion to drill on Gamble’s Hill |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/21/1862; Ladies’ Defence Association is building its gunboat opposite
Rocketts. Farrand in charge. Note from Maria Clopton on this. Tredegar
involved. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/23/1862; Tredegar Battalion to muster on Gamble’s Hill, full dress uniform |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/24/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades, 350 strong. Cannon described |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/24/1862; Tredegar trying to exchange “T” rails for “flat or heavy” rails |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/24/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades with the
Armory Band in Capitol Square, and is inspected by the Governor |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/30/1862; Co. F, Tredegar Battn to meet at Old Market Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/2/1862; runaway slave notice from Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/3/1862; Company F, Tredegar Battalion, to meet |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/13/1862; runaway notices for 5 slaves from Tredegar |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/15/1862; mare stolen from Gen. J. R. Anderson’s stable |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/16/1862; report on meeting at City Hall for city defense. Tredegar
Battalion key part of city defences; Mayor Mayo says he would rather die
than surrender the city |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/19/1862; Capt. J. F. Goodwin orders Co. F, Tredegar Battalion to assemble
for meeting |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/20/1862; inventor of Williams’ Mounted Rifle to have demonstration at
Tredegar |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
6/2/1862; excellent description of the Battle
of Seven Pines - mentions Joseph R. Anderson and other CSA generals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/26/1862; J. R.
Anderson adv for oak timber for Tredegar |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; Details
of J. R. Anderson’s wounding |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/5/1862;
unidentified swimmer drowns in canal beside Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/5/1862; man drowns in the canal near Tredegar
Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/7/1862; Tredegar Iron works described by
Yankee reporter during the Seven Days |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/11/1862; J. R.
Anderson adv for 15-20 laborers for Botetourt furnace |
|
Joseph
R. Anderson CSR, M331 |
7/14/1862; Joseph R. Anderson's
letter of resignation as Brigadier General from the C. S. Army; cites the
need for him at Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/14/1862; prisoners have been sent
to Belle Isle, officers are confined in Crenshaw warehouse (within
Tredegar Iron Works); account of letters sent from Libby Prison |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/19/1862; J. R.
Anderson’s HQ at “Mill Farm;” A. P. Hill’s HQ on Charles City Road |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/26/1862; good description of Belle Isle;
mentions that the Isle is reached by a boat starting from near Tredegar |
|
New
York Herald |
7/28/1862; wonderful general description of the
city of Richmond - mentions, Hollywood, Tredegar, the Almshouse, appearance
of the prisons, Odd Fellows Hall, and the James River and Kanawha Canal |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/2/1862;
Tredegar adv for 6 blacksmiths & 12 strikers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/2/1862; runaway
slave notice for Caroline County negro employed at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/2/1862; blacksmiths and strikers needed at
the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/7/1862; reward offered for return
of J. R. Anderson's (Tredegar Iron Works) stolen horse |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/9/1862; ad for employees at
Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/12/1862;
Tredegar adv for man to operate freight boat on canal |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/21/1862; cannonball, fired from
Tredegar Iron Works while proving guns, lands two 1/2 miles off |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/25/1862;
Tredegar adv to purchase 10 or 12 mules |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/27/1862; notes on the status of
the Tredegar Battalion towards the quota of volunteers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/28/1862;
Tredegar selling “several stationary engines” & also wagon axles |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/28/1862;
Tredegar also adv for “several good boatmen” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/2/1862; runaway
slave notice for blacksmith hired out to Tredegar foundry |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/15/1862; adv from “Many Voters” urging J. R. Anderson to run for House of
Delegates |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/16/1862; letter
of J. R. Anderson, declining to run for Virginia House of Delegates |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/16/1862;
Tredegar renting out “large rooms occupied formerly by the Car Spring
Company” |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/22/1862; Tredegar Iron Works is
hiring boatmen |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Wm.
E. Tanner at Tredegar adv riding mare for sale |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1862; freak cannon accident at the
Tredegar Iron Works - the city pump-house is accidentally shot |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/5/1862; leak
in canal above Tredegar quickly repaired. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/8/1862;
Mayor’s Court: J. R. Anderson slave whipped for stealing wood; Mulatto
arraigned and whipped for “impudence” to the watchman of the Spotswood
Hotel; Police raid Locust Alley – several prostitutes arrested, as well as
their “visitors” |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/8/1862; slave of J. R. Anderson convicted
for stealing lumber from the Basin bank - gets fifteen lashes |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/10/1862; fire
at Tredegar put out pretty early. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
11/10/1862; Canal boat sinks near Tredegar Iron
Works |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862;
report on meeting of city citizens for shoes – J. L. Burrows, 1st Baptist
Church, chairman. $4-5 thousand raised on the spot. List of committee
members for various wards including Luther Libby, Wm. Greanor, Jno. R.
Ballard, T. W. Hoeniger, James H. Grant, Joel B. Watkins, General J. R.
Anderson & many more. One group to meet at J. R. Anderson’s home. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862; new
cannon cast at Tredegar (a “monster”) tested near Water Works |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862; J. R.
Anderson offering money exchange at Tredegar |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862; Wm.
E. Tanner, Tredegar, adv for horse for sale |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/21/1862; J. R.
Anderson adv for file cutter |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; long
adv from Tredegar – want 500 negroes to work in Botetourt Co. blast furnace |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; J. R.
Anderson adv to purchase oak lumber for gun carriages |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862;
Tredegar adv for a file cutter |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/13/1862; Joseph R. Anderson buys a farm in
Goochland County for $112,000 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
12/29/1862; Tredegar employee murders neighbor |
| Richmond
Whig |
1/7/1863; ads for employees at Tredegar Iron
Works |
|
Houston
Tri-Weekly Telegraph |
3/23/1863; correspondence of 5th TX
soldier describing the Texas Hospital, and the benevolence of Mr. Tanner,
co-proprietor of Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1863; fatal injuries at Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; twenty mules needed at
Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/16/1863; fire at Crenshaw Mills and Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1863; fire at Crenshaw Mills and Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/16/1863; fire at Crenshaw Mills and Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/16/1863; fire at Crenshaw Mills and Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Charleston Mercury |
5/16/1863; war news - notes the fire at
Tredegar and the Crenshaw Woolen Mills |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/18/1863; Tredegar employees are
retaining their jobs, despite damage to the works |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/21/1863; ruined wall at Tredegar
falls down, injuring several |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
6/6/1863; news from Richmond - notes that the
Tredegar Iron Works are up and running again after the fire |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/4/1863; damaged Tredegar
departments are being restored to operation; Crenshaw mills will not be
rebuilt |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/18/1863; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar
Iron Works) buys a lot of flour to sell to his workers at cost |
|
VHS 11/3/1863 |
11/3/1863; J. R. Anderson
requests that one of his workers who is confined in Castle Thunder be
"returned to his employment." Apparently, this man attempted to desert to
the enemy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/17/1863; walls of the ruined
Crenshaw Woolen Mills collapse. Notes that the mill site had recently been
purchased by Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/2/1864; accident at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1864; reprinted in Southern Historical
Society Papers Vol. 37 (1909), pp. 198-202. Part two of account of the
repulse of Dahlgren's Raid. Indicates the Tredegar Battalion was
responsible for the repulse. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/4/1864; correction: the Armory Battalion,
not the Tredegar Battalion, were responsible for repulsing Dahlgren's
raiders |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/18/1864; two workers at Tredegar
arrested for fighting |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
5/6/1864; war news - describes (very visually)
the operations at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/13/1864; letters and goodies for
the Tredegar and Departmental battalions should be left at Mr. Tanner's
office (address given) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/24/1864; operative at Tredegar is
arrested for stealing nails |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/24/1864; Tredegar operative
charged with stealing nails |
|
New
York Herald |
7/4/1864; war news - notes the destruction
(during Hunter's Shenandoah Valley raid) of the Virginia Military Institute
and a branch of the Tredegar Iron Works at Buchanan |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/9/1864; five workmen at Tredegar
are captured while attempting to escape to the Yankees and are put in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/9/1864; five operatives at the
Tredegar Iron Works are caught while attempting to go over to the Yankees
and are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/2/1864; boy is arrested for
stealing pig iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/3/1864; boy caught stealing pig
iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/3/1864; boy caught stealing pig
iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/13/1864; boy acquitted for
stealing pig iron from Tredegar |
|
New
York Herald |
9/19/1864; notes from an informer on the
condition of Lee's Army, the Richmond defenses, feeling against Jefferson
Davis, and conditions in Richmond - notes the railroads are very poor, and
that 5000 blacks are employed at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/14/1864; three workers
from Tredegar arrested while attempting to go over to the enemy and are put
in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/14/1864;
two workers at Tredegar captured while going
to Yankee lines |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
11/15/1864; great description of the operation
of the Ordnance Department - mentions the Arsenal at length |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1864; Three people
(one of whom was a Tredegar worker) arrested on Williamsburg road for
attempting to go to the enemy. They said they were going to visit friends at
Chaffin's Bluff |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/24/1864; small explosion at Tredegar Iron
Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/24/1864;
one white man and three negroes were killed
by the accidental explosion of shells at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/3/1865; member of the Tredegar
Battalion, now stationed near Fort Harrison, attempts to desert to the enemy
and is shot and killed |
|
New
York Herald |
4/6/1865; Details on the Federal occupation of
Richmond - notes that the furniture in the White House of the Confederacy
was left behind, and that Tredegar survived the fire. Libby Prison and
Castle Thunder are now full of Confederate prisoners |
|
New
York Herald |
4/12/1865; notes the visit of President Lincoln
to Richmond, the parade of the XXIV Corps through town, and efforts by local
capitalists [including J. R. Anderson] to bring VA back into the Union.
Losses due to fire are 2/3 the city's assessed value |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/12/1865; Tredegar Iron Works remain intact
because workers helped extinguish fires |
|
New
York Herald |
4/13/1865; excellent letter from Richmond
describing the Federal occupation of Richmond, mentions Tredegar, former
slaves, Rocketts, former rebel hospitals (Chimborazo, Jackson, Stuart) - All
patients now at Jackson, Stuart Hospital is now a US Post Hospital.
Dahlgren's body found and is being returned to Washington. Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison are now holding Confederates. Also notes veneration of
Robert E. Lee in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1865; prominent Richmonders, including
Joseph R. Anderson, have taken the oath of allegiance to the U.S. |
|
Scribner's
Monthly, July 1877 |
7/1877; "Richmond Since the
War" - good material on Tredegar Iron Works, Belle Isle, Libby
Prison, Oakwood Cemetery, and Capital Square |
|
National
Tribune |
11/10/1892; "Belle Isle
Revisited," gives account of the author's trip to Belle Isle and
notes its changes, mentions Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Van
Santvoord, Cornelius, 120th Regiment New York State Volunteers |
1894; description of life on Belle Isle in
1864, including offers for employment at the Tredegar Iron Works upon
taking the oath of allegiance; apparently, very few would do so |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/30/1894;
great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion, focusing on how
much has changed since the war |
| Confederate Veteran, 31, pp. 448-451 |
Anderson, Joseph R., Jr.
"Anderson's Brigade in Battles Around Richmond." |
