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

Written Accounts

1908-06-13, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar wins government contract for $100,000 to make 10 and 12-inch shells for coastal defense
1909-04-23, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar awarded contract to make 1,200 12-inch cast iron shells
1910-01-08, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar Iron Works secures another contract for shells for coastal defense.
1911, "A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment NY Volunteer Inf. in the Civil War, 1861-1865"; Nash, Eugene A., 1911 account by Captain C. D. Grannis of life in Libby Prison in 1862. Very interesting (and negative) portrayal of Erasmus Ross
1914-04-23, Trenton (NJ) Evening Times; Tredegar Iron Works working “day and night” producing shells for the U. S. Army – turns down offer from Mexican rebels: “its entire output was at the disposal of this government.”
1914-04-24, Harrisburg (PA) Patriot; praise of the Tredegar Iron Works for their “almost unheard-of decision” to refuse to sell munitions to Mexican forces, despite being guaranteed cash, because they might be used against “their country”
1914-10-02, Cape Weekly Tribune (Cape Girardeau, Mo.); recollection of J. J. Clopton of the burning of Richmond on April 2, 1865. Notes that he grew up opposite the Van Lew house.
1914-10-14, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar Iron Works is operating at full capacity, but refuses orders for war materials from European governments based on neutrality laws
1915-08-20, Greensboro (NC) Daily News; machinists at Tredegar Iron Works vote to strike for better wages
1917-04-02, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar closes shell foundry, having completed an order from the British government – 1,500 people laid off, pending new wartime contracts from US government

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