Food & Supply
Information about Food & Supply in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1839-05-17, Richmond Enquirer; advertisement notifying the public of the opening of the Tredegar Iron Company – description of facilities and products
1839-06-28, Richmond Enquirer; report on a “heavy and difficult casting” of a new water wheel shaft at the Tredegar Iron Works
1840-05-22, Richmond Whig; Tredegar looking to sell bricks and rent out the “lower part of the Tan Yard lot” which can be supplied with water power
1841-04-06, Richmond Whig; Joseph R. Anderson is advertised as the Commercial Agent of the Tredegar Iron Works, and all orders are to go through him
1847-06-01, Richmond Enquirer; claim that Tredegar Iron Works manufactured the first railroad iron in America
1848-01-14, Richmond Enquirer; Talavera house, future site of Battery No. 10, is up for sale – very detailed description. For sale by R. A. Talley, of the Tredegar Iron Works
1849-12-20, Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC); J. R. Anderson has sold the mules and horses of the Catawba Furnaces – Lynchburg paper calls this “the first step to the general abandonment of the manufacture of iron in Virginia.”
1854-03-14, Richmond Whig; two ads from Tredegar: one announcing Charles Y. Morriss as a partner, the other advertising under the new name all the products available
1861-01-21, New York Herald; 1000 kegs of powder from Tredegar arrive at Charleston
1861-03-15, Nashville Union and American; brief notice that Tredegar is casting cannon for Georgia and Alabama

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