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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TREDVC_060503_008.JPG: A map of the 1862 battlefields around Richmond
2. TREDVC_060503_009.JPG: This is an example of a pontoon boat that would have been used to create bridges to cross the rivers.
3. TREDVC_060503_032.JPG: An example of how canister was done during the Civil War. Basically, it's buckshot.
4. TREDVC_060503_039.JPG: The Richmond battlefields of 1864.
5. TREDVC_060503_046.JPG: Various Civil War-related churches and cemeteries in the Richmond area: Shockoe Cemetery: Antebellum cemetery where Confederate soldiers as well as hundreds of Union prisoners were buried during the war. Richmond Unionist Elizabeth Van Lew is also buried here. Hebrew Cemetery (1816): Includes a section for Confederates of the Jewish faith. Second Presbyterian Church: From 1847 to 1899 led by Dr. Moses D. Hoge, a celebrated minister and a friend of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. During the war, Hoge regularly visited Confederate soldiers in the field. Third Street Bethel AME Church (1857; altered 1875): Built for one of the first Southern black congregations to break away from the white-controlled Methodist Episcopal Church. St. Peter's Church (1834): The oldest Roman Catholic church in Richmond. Oakwood Cemetery: Burial site of more than 15,000 Confederate war dead. Most died in Richmond hospitals; others were killed in battles during 1862 or 1864. Monumental Church (1812-1814), Robert Mills, architect: Built as a monument and crypt for 72 victims of an 1811 theater fire. St. Paul's Church (1845), T.B. Stewart, architect: Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were parishioners here. During a service, President Davis received news of the fall of Petersburg and the imminent occupation of Richmond. Hollywood Cemetery (mid-19th century): Contains the graves of 18,000 Confederate war dead, including 24 generals; Jefferson and Varine Davis and their family, and U.S. Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler.
6. TREDVC_060503_048.JPG: An old photo of the George Washington statue at the Capitol during the Civil War.
7. TREDVC_060503_092.JPG: A piece of the CSS Virginia, whose iron Tredegar made
8. TREDVC_060503_135.JPG: Tredegar during the Civil War
9. TREDVC_060503_150.JPG: Tredegar during World War I
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Wikipedia Description: Tredegar Iron Works
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Tredegar Iron Works is a historic iron foundry in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. The site is now the location of a museum called The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar.

"Founding" and management under Davies (1833-1838):

The foundry was named in honor of the town of Tredegar, South Wales, United Kingdom, where iron works of the same name were constructed in the early 1800s, and which was also the hometown of Rhys Davies, the man originally in charge of constructing the facility. In 1833, a group of Richmond businessmen and industrialists hired Davies, then a young engineer, along with a number of fellow iron workers from the Welsh valley town, to construct the furnaces and rolling mills that later became the Tredegar Iron Works and Belle Isle Iron Works.

Rhys Davies died in Richmond in September 1838 as a result of stab wounds received in a fight with a workman and was buried on Belle Isle in the James River.

Management under Joseph Reid Anderson (1841-Civil War):

In 1841, the owners turned management over to a 28-year-old civil engineer named Joseph Reid Anderson who proved to be an able manager. Anderson acquired ownership of the foundry 1848 and was soon doing work for the United States government. The commissioning of 900 miles of railroad track in Virginia, largely financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works between 1846 and 1853, offered a market in steam locomotives and rail stock.

One of those attributed with starting the Tredegar Locomotive Works with John Souther was Zerah Colburn, the well-known locomotive engineer and journalist. By 1860, Anderson's father-in-law Dr. Robert Archer had joined the business and Tredegar became a leading iron producer in the country. The company produced about 70 steam locomotives between 1850 and 1860. From 1852 to 1854, John Souther also managed the locomotive shop at Tredegar. Its locomotive production work is som ...More...
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