Joseph Reid Anderson
Supervisor, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, July, 1862 - April, 1865
Removed from control by Federal authorities, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1867
Returned as Supervisor, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1867-1892
Born: February 16, 1813, Botetourt County, Virginia
Died: September 7, 1892, Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire
- U. S. Military Academy (West Point) graduate, 1836 (4th in class)
- Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Artillery, USA, 1836
- Resigned USA Commission, 1837
- Started working with Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1841
- Appointed Major of Artillery, CSA, August 1861
- Brigadier General, CSA, September 3, 1861
- Resigned Commsision, CSA, July 19, 1862
- Became Supervisor, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, July, 1862 - April, 1865
- Removed from control by Federal authorities, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1867
- Returned as Supervisor, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1867-1892
Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
See also the Confederate Soldier Personnel Section
(Source: Ezra J. Warner, Generals In Gray, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993), pp.1-350; Mark M. Boatner III, The Civil War Dictionary, (New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1959), pp. 1-954; Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Civil War, (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers), pp. 1-850; Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987), pp. 323-350; Richard Owen and James Owen, Generals At Rest, (Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 1-335.)