| Tredegar
Sales to Railroads, 1864
(in excess of $25,000) |
|
| Railroad | Confederate Dollars |
| Virginia Central | $378,043 |
| Charlotte & South Carolina | 289,019 |
| North Carolina | 262,947 |
| South Carolina | 261,940 |
| Virginia & Tennessee | 254,965 |
| Wilmington & Manchester | 203,953 |
| Richmond & Danville | 149,467 |
| North Eastern | 125,905 |
| Piedmont | 125,102 |
| Petersburg | 115,842 |
| Wilmington & Weldon | 96,834 |
| South Western | 91,642 |
| Central (of Georgia) | 59,725 |
| Muscogee | 48,947 |
| Mobile & Ohio | 48,158 |
| Greenville & Columbia | 44,688 |
| Montgomery & West Point | 44,599 |
| South Side | 44,050 |
| Richmond & Petersburg | 42,988 |
| Georgia | 41,258 |
| Macon & Western | 25,831 |
|
TOTAL |
2,755,908 |
| Joseph Anderson, owner of Tredegar, showed intentional preference to the needs of the roads that would provide him space to ship to Richmond the food needed for his employees. The food was mostly coming from southwestern Georgia. | |
| From Charles Dew, Ironmaker to the Confederacy, p. 273 | |