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...I. B. Holley, Jr. Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works . By Dew Charles B. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 . Pp. ix , 345 . $10.00 Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 190 The South Atlantic Quarterly of touch...

... the title alone is likely to attract, for the author goes well beyond the financial and administrative details of the Tredegar firm to reveal the trials of an agricultural nation desperately attempting by one expedient after another to cope with the demands of a war inescapably industrial. By the time...

... operating capital for a fresh postwar begin­ ning. General J. R. Anderson, the West Point graduate who was man­ ager and mainspring of the Tredegar, emerges as an extremely able but opportunistic industrialist whose primary object was profit. The only disappointment in the book for this reader...

... Tredegar Iron Works. Coal from the mines of adjacent Chesterfield County supplied fuel for the entire eastern seaboard until the Pennsylvania canals completed in the 1830 s opened up the anthracite region in the western part of that state. Nevertheless, it dropped steadily in rank among southern cities...

... is the closing one on the Confederate era. Why was Lee s army so well equipped with ordnance? The answer to a large extent is found in the story of the Tredegar Iron Works of Richmond, the dominating unit in the iron industry of the state. Through the genius of its president, Joseph R. Anderson...

... a panorama of the city for visitors. The Main Street Station in Richmond was reached by an extensive steel viaduct system, and passengers could view much of the city s industry, especially the Tredegar and Belle Isle Iron Works. The verandah behind the Union Station in Columbia, South Carolina, afforded...

... research weapon, one that can help the historian define his problem in the most meaningful terms, test his hypoth- The author teaches history at Louisiana State University. His book, Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works, was recently published by Yale University...

.... Freemen led the state in black ownership of town property, while slaves, through the Civil War, comprised half the labor force of Tredegar Iron Com­ pany, ironmaker of the Confederacy. Union victory assured eman­ cipation; equality was deferred. The Radical City Council established a dual school system...