Ironmaker to the Confederacy

Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Ironworks.

By Charles B. Dew. New edition, expanded and revised.  1999. 345 pp., with 10 black-and-white illustrations and maps.
ISBN 0-88490-190-4 (cloth) $25.00

Charles Dew's unsurpassed Ironmaker to the Confederacy tells the story of the South's premier ironworks and its intrepid owner, Joseph Reid Anderson. Dew masterfully describes Tredegar's struggle to supply the Confederate nation with the weapons of war and is a seminal study of southern manufacturing and industrial slavery. Reviewers of the first edition praised its graceful style and excellent design, features that have made it a valuable and much-sought-after title. The revised edition includes a new preface by the author, additional illustrations, and redesigned maps of the ironworks based on new site research and archaeology.