Joseph Reid Anderson

Name ANDERSON, Joseph Reid
Born February 16 1813, Botetourt Cty VA
Died September 7 1892, Isles of Shoals NH
Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1836, engineering duty, resigned 1837, Superintendent of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond.
War Service August 1861 Maj. of artillery, Brig. Gen. September 1861, commanded 3rd North Carolina Bde/A P Hill's Divn in Peninsula campaign, Seven Days (w), resigned commission July 1862, Supervisor of Tredegar Iron Works
Post War Career President, Tredegar Iron Works
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Further reading
Dew, Charles B Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works New Haven, Yale University Press 1966