As the border states began to fall, Alabama iron became critical to the survival of the Confederacy. During the last two years of the war, Alabama's furnaces were producing 70% of the entire southern iron supply.
That output invited federal inv…
This important battery of charcoal blast furnaces ranked among the most productive in Alabama during the Civil War. The only three furnaces ironworks in the state during the war years, it was capable of producing 22 tons of pig iron a day for the …