Tredegar Iron Works
Ironworks, Richmond, Virginia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Richmond, Virginia
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
TREDEGAR IRON WORKS
Largest ironworks in the Confederacy. It cast about 1,100 artillery pieces, about half of Southern domestic production, including Brooke rifles, and rolled the iron plate for CSS Virginia. The Tredegar battalion defended the works through the evacuation fire of April 2 and 3, 1865.
Then
Tredegar was the largest ironworks in the Confederacy. It cast about 1,100 artillery pieces, about half of Southern domestic production, including Brooke rifles, and rolled the iron plate for CSS Virginia.
Union cavalry under Hunter destroyed its best gun iron furnaces in June 1864, cutting output. The Tredegar battalion defended the works during the evacuation fire of April 2 and 3, 1865, and they survived.
Now
Museum
The site is a National Historic Landmark District, and its main building houses the American Civil War Museum.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by CSX.
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