when the union army came into richmond they occupied tredegar ironworks and joseph reed anderson and his family, his sons and his uncle, a lot of other family members they were actually working at the site as well and they had to receive pardons from andrew johnson at the time in order to get war and to gain ownership back of tredegar. and in the summer of 1865, they were granted their pardons and tredegar was getting back to them. tredegar was able to pick up operations pretty much right where it left off. they had to repair a lot of equipment, they had to bring in new equipment because during the years of the civil war they weren't able to order more northern advanced equipment so there was some retooling of things, joseph reed anderson able to get northern investors to invest in the operation and tredegar was able to get back into operation very, very quickly. they nevert 1200xdi] cartwheels small iron implements until r 1957. the albemarlelp papere1 manufacturing company whichñr owned several paper mills around the site bought the property, shut down tredegar operations, a lot of

joseph reed anderson and his amily, his sons and uncle, lot of other family members were working as well and they had a receive pardons from andrew johnson at the time in order to get clemency from their activities during the civil war, but also to gain ownership of tredegar. josephsummer of 1865, anderson and his family were granted their pardons and tredegar was given back to them. tredegar was able to pick up operations pretty much for the left off. they had to repair equipment, bring in new equipment because during the war they were not able to order more northern advanced equipment. there was some retooling of things. joseph anderson was able to get northern investors to invest in the operation. tredegar was able to get back into operation quickly. they never produced cannons after the civil war. between 1865 and 1873 there was a railroad boom. tredegar became eventually one of the main suppliers of the railroad industry at the time, producing railroad spikes, cartwheels, and railroad cars themselves. in their heyday, the turn-of-the-century, 1890 to 1910, the entire complex span ar