. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . RUINS OF THE TREDEGAR IRON WORKS IX RICHMOND, APRIL, 1805—THE MAIN FACTORYFOR HEAVY CANNON IN THE SOUTH The Tredegar Iron Worksin Richmond was practicallythe only factory for cannonin the South, especially forpieces of heavy caliber. Thissupplied one of the chiefreasons for the ConfederateGovernments orders tohold Richmond at all haz-ards. Thus the strategy ofConfederate generals washampered and conditioned,through the circumstancethat Richmond contained inthe Tredegar Works almostthe only means of supply-ing the South with cannon.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . RUINS OF THE TREDEGAR IRON WORKS IX RICHMOND, APRIL, 1805—THE MAIN FACTORYFOR HEAVY CANNON IN THE SOUTH The Tredegar Iron Worksin Richmond was practicallythe only factory for cannonin the South, especially forpieces of heavy caliber. Thissupplied one of the chiefreasons for the ConfederateGovernments orders tohold Richmond at all haz-ards. Thus the strategy ofConfederate generals washampered and conditioned,through the circumstancethat Richmond contained inthe Tredegar Works almostthe only means of supply-ing the South with , Georgia, wherethe great powder factoryof the Confederacy was lo-cated, was another mostimportant point. Militarystrategists have debatedwhy Sherman did not turnaside in his march to thesea in order to destroy thisfactory. Augusta was pre-pared to make a stout de-. AFTER THE GREAT RICHMOND FIRE fense, and the Confederacjwas already crumbling atthis time. The Union ar-mies were fast closing aboutRichmond, and possiblySherman regarded such anattempt as a work of super-erogation and a useless sac-rifice of life. Only a fewmonths more, and Rich-mond was to fall, with aconflagration that totallydemolished the TredegarWorks. Colonel John , of 1103 GreeneStreet, an old inhabitant ofAugusta, who made an ex-cellent record in the Con-federate army, tells of astory current in that citythat the sparing of Augustawas a matter of recalled his formerconnection with the localMilitary Academy forboys, and that here dweltsome of his former sweet-hearts and valued friends. How could an army so poorly equipped, so imperfectlyarmed, so ill fed and ill clothed, win out in a contest with anarmy so vastly its superior in numbers and so superbly armedand equipped:* How could an agricultural people, unskilledin the mechanical arts, therefore una
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