Visit ironworks in richmond that served as the main artillery manufacturer for the confederacy during the civil war. It was an iron foundry that operated on the bank the james river from 1837 to 1957. Its greatest claim to fame was the chief armor, to the confederacy during the civil war producing a large majority of the cannons used by the confederacy. Richmond had a lot of infrastructure that no longer exists from battlefield hospitals to the battlefield themselves. Fewironworks is one of the remaining structures that existed before the civil war, played a. His history dates to the 1800s and southeastern wales in the united kingdom. There was an ironworks that was the main supplier of iron for the British Industrial revolution era when richmond businessman wanted to begin an ironworks here they contacted engineers and millwrights to come over here and design their mills and ironworks here. Francis dean, who started tredegar, had a good amount of imagination but not a good businessman
Virginia for the continuation of the symposium on civil war monuments. We have a museum professional. Anistorian and lawyer, english professor and clergyman, and archivist and historian, and a sociologist. I think this accounts for multiple perspectives. He has published and spoken widely, challenging americans to question sources by which we remember our past. He is best known for his provocatively titled book, lies my teacher told me everything your High School History textbook got wrong. And lies across america what are historian sites got wrong. Students of the civil war no him also for his coedited collection of primary source documents, the confederate and the old confederate reader. His first book, the mississippi chinese, between white and black in 1971 is derived from his harvard doctoral dissertation, his prizewinning 1974 textbook, mississippi conflict and change, was the subject of a Court Decision articulating the right to read. He talked Race Relations for 20 years at the
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Horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at Virginia Tech before that. She earned her phd at unc chapel hill. Shes working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. And by the way, she g
Im director of the Virginia Center for civil war studies. It was my job one of my jobs to split these nine talks into three different sessions one for each week and the theme the kind of sub theme i came up with for this week is manpower and horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she work