Restored Reedy River Industrial Complex
Greenville
When prominent businessmen went off to war, women often stepped out of traditional roles and into the family business. T. G. Gower's wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Cordelia, assumed management of their successful South Carolina carriage factory for a year to produce much needed wagons, caissons and ambulances for the Confederate Army.
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Another branch of the Confederate quartermaster's department, the Field Transportation Bureau, established shops at Dallas, Tyler, Rusk, Mount Pleasant, Paris, Waco, and Hempstead. These shops employed civilian wheelwrights, blacksmiths, carpenters, saddlers, and harness-makers in the manufacture and repair of military transportation equipment. By February 1864 they were capable of producing 190 wagons, 6 ambulances, 900 sets of harness, and 360 saddles per month.
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During the late 1850s, Thomas Affleck and his wife, Anna (Dunbar) Smith, came to Texas and established their Washington County plantation, which included what is now the Gay Hill community. The Affleck plantation, known as "Glenblythe," was extensive and highly organized. It included a wagon factory, where wagons and ambulances were made for the Confederacy.
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Major R. P. Archer, in charge of wagon aud ambulance factory, providing horses, mules, harness and means of transportation. Office, Bacon's Quarter Branch, (in the northwestern suberbs of the city.)[Richmond]
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