| Attached to many railroads' main page is
a link to the purchases by that road from the Tredegar Iron Works in
Richmond. |
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The wheel information is taken from
Financial documents, since I have not found the Machine Shop
records. The other items come from Foundry records. This is a sample entry of this type:
Virginia Central Railroad Tredegar Purchases
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| Remember that western railroads probably made purchases from the
Etowah Iron Works, the Selma Iron Works, and the Atlanta Iron Works
-- records of none of these businesses have been located. Records of
the Shelby Iron Works have been located and their sales entered for
the railroads concerned. |
| The railroads were also supported by the
purchases of the Railroad Bureau and the Engineer Bureau.
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| In addition to the needs of the
railroads and the Confederate Ordnance Bureau, Tredegar supplied
numerous smaller customers (all doing war work) and two other
Government units with large requirements.
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| In late 1864, Tredegar found it
necessary to purchase corn for its workers by consigning shipments
of iron bars to an agent in southwestern Georgia to be sold for
corn. These consignments were: May 51,590#; July 2,105#;
October 35,480#; November 19,880#; December
4,000#. Also, the September sale of 21,315# of bar iron to the
Greenville & Columbia RR was to be paid for in corn in Columbia,
S. C. |