Trivia 7-15-16 Riddle Me This and Bonus

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I am a place where four counties meet
at the end of the mountains, right at their feet
From my youth as a bloomery, i grew to a blast
and I supplied Selma in my Confederate past
My sire from New Jersey, a yankee he be
Was brought to Ol' Dixie by Abner McGehee
A target of Wilson on his raid through the state
I was burned like my brothers, all but one met this fate
What am I ?

Credit: @Gene Green

Bonus: Who were Moscow, Decatur and Bayard?

credit: @kholland
 
You are the three charcoal burning blast furnaces that made up the Roupes Valley Iron Works at Tannehill, Alabama

Bonus:
They were Gen. Philip Kearny's horses. Moscow, a high-spirited white horse. Decatur, a light bay, was killed at Seven Pines. When Kearny was killed at Chantilly he was riding Bayard, a light brown horse
 
You are Tannehill Ironworks
The remains of the furnaces, among the best preserved in the South, are the centerpiece of the 1,500-acre Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, created by the Alabama Legislature in 1969 as a memorial to the state's early iron industry. The furnaces are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Civil War Discovery Trail.

source: most info came from http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1616, but other sources were used as well to verify details (e.g., topographic maps, the N.J. birthplace of Daniel Hillman, etc.)

Bonus: Horses of Brigadier General Philip Kearney
source: http://www.nellaware.com/blog/civil-war-horses.html/comment-page-1

Edit - Did you change your username?

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The Tannehill Ironworks (aka Roupes Valley Iron Company) grew out of the original Hillman Bloomery. The Bloomery took its name from Daniel Hillman, a New Jersey born ironmaker, who was brought to Alabama by Abner McGehee and other investors. During the Civil War the iron was shipped to the Confederate Naval Gun Works and Arsenal in Selma until burned by the 8th Iowa Cavalry on March 31, 1865 during Wilson's Raid.
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABookServlet?oclcnum=511613145

Bonus: Horses belonging to Major General Phil Kearny. Moscow was his favorite, he was killed at Chantilly (Ox Hill) riding Bayard.
 
Regular question:

I must say that these riddles, though beautifully worded, are pretty difficult for me.
Therefore I can only guess that you mean the Shelby Iron Works.
"The Shelby Iron Works, located near Columbiana in Shelby County and founded by Horace Ware in the late 1840s, was one of the major suppliers of iron to Selma's manufacturing complex. Other significant suppliers included the Brierfield Furnace in Bibb County, Tannehill Ironworks in Jefferson County, and the Little Cahaba Iron Works (also known as "Brighthope") in Bibb County, founded by William Phineas Browne in 1848."
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2331

Bonus:

Moscow, Decatur and Bayard were Union brigadier general Phil Kearny's war horses.
  • Moscow was favorite, but avoided riding due to his conspicuous white color
  • Decatur was secondary; horse shot through the neck at Fair Oaks
  • Bayard was secondary too ; Kearny was killed at Chantilly while riding this horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_horses_of_the_American_Civil_War&oldid=708655057
 
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Bonus-Moscow
Favorite mount of USA General Philip Kearny...Also rode Decatur and Bayard-horses.
source-CivilWarTalk

A foundry or ironworks - The only one not burned was the Tallassee Ironworks.
The Confederate Carbine Works at the Tallassee Armory, Elmore County, was the maker of the famed Tallassee carbine; facility moved from Richmond, July of 1863. This foundry and surrounding factory buildings, powered by the Tallapoosa River, was the only Confederate Armory not destroyed during the Civil War. The rifle factory still stands as a national historic site.
source-http://www.alaironworks.com/foundries.htm
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Edit - Response revised in post # 26.

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I am a place where four counties meet
at the end of the mountains, right at their feet
From my youth as a bloomery, i grew to a blast
and I supplied Selma in my Confederate past
My sire from New Jersey, a yankee he be
Was brought to Ol' Dixie by Abner McGehee
A target of Wilson on his raid through the state
I was burned like my brothers, all but one met this fate
What am I ?
Tannahill Furnace. Here is a 6lb howitzer that I own and currently rebuilding the carraige. This one is one of 3 that was cast when the furnace was re-fired in 1976

Credit: @Gene Green

Bonus: Who were Moscow, Decatur and Bayard?
General Kearny's
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horses

credit: @kholland
 
Tannehill Furnaces 0r Tannehill Foundry, in Roupes Valley, Alabama

f/k/a Hillman Bloomery
Hillman began looking for new iron-making opportunities, settling near rich ore deposits in the vicinity of Bucksville, where at the time Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Bibb, and Shelby counties came together.

Bloomeries were early forges that made small amounts of wrought iron directly from ore for tools, plows, and cooking utensils. The builder, Daniel Hillman, was enticed to the area by Abner McGehee, a railroad investor from Montgomery. Hillman moved from the Hanging Rock Iron Region of the Ohio Valley, where he managed the Pine Grove Steam Furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio, and later the Cataract Bloomery on the Little Sandy River in Greenup County, Kentucky.

The Tannehill facility was targeted for destruction as part of Union general James H. Wilson's raid into Alabama; it was attacked by three companies of the U. S. Eighth Iowa Cavalry on March 31, 1865, under the command of Capt. William A. Sutherland. Wilson's cavalry operation, which involved more than 14,000 troops, burned every Alabama furnace but one, the Hale & Murdock mill near Vernon, in Lamar County.
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Tannehill Foundry. . . . . . Ruins of C.S. Naval Foundry Selma . . . Abner McGehee

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1616

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There is also a UDC marker placed in 1977 but I was unable to copy it ?

Bonus

General Philip Kearney's horses
(Philip Kearney of the First United States Dragoons, Mexican War, 100 gray mares, purchased in Illinois with the help of Abraham Lincoln)

of his Civil War horses
Moscow, "his most celebrated steed" . . . "a high-spirited white horse"
Decatur, "a light bay which was shot through the neck at Fair Oaks or Seven Pines"
Bayard, "a brown horse", made famous by the poem by Stedman "Kearney at Seven Pines"

The Photographic History of the Civil War: The cavalry,
By Robert Sampson Lanier, free ebook

https://books.google.com/books?id=l...AB#v=onepage&q=moscow decartur bayard&f=false
 
Tannehill Ironworks/Tannehill furnace.
"Ironmaking at the site began with construction of a bloomery forge by Daniel Hillman Sr. in 1830.[3] Built by noted southern ironmaster Moses Stroup from 1859 to 1862, the three charcoal blast furnaces at Tannehill could produce 22 tons of pig iron a day, most of which was shipped to the Naval Gun Works and Arsenal at Selma. Furnaces Nos. 2 and 3 were equipped with hot blast stoves and a steam engine. Brown iron ore mines were present two miles (3 km) distant.[4]


The Tannehill furnaces and its adjacent
foundry, where kettles and hollow-ware were cast for southern troops, were attacked and burnt by three companies of the U.S. 8th Iowa Cavalry on March 31, 1865 during Wilson's Raid. The ruins remain today as one of the best preserved 19th-century iron furnace sites in the South.[5]


Also known as the Roupes Valley Iron Company, these works had significant influence on the later development of the
Birmingham iron and steel industry. An experiment conducted at Tannehill in 1862 proved red iron ore could successfully be used in Alabama blast furnaces. The test, promoted by South & North Railroad developers, led to the location of government-financed ironworks in the immediate Birmingham area (Jefferson County).[6]"


Great little park if any of you are ever in the area!!

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Friday question: Tannehill Ironworks (Roupes Valley Ironworks).
http://www.tannehill.org/index.html
http://www.tannehill.org/welcome.html#history
http://www.lat34north.com/historicm...le=Abner McGehee / Early Alabama Entrepreneur (links McGehee to Daniel Hillman, founder of bloomery forge)
https://books.google.com/books?id=i...IKzAC#v=onepage&q=daniel hillman 1830&f=false (more details about founder Daniel Hillman, which does connect him with New Jersey even though other sources call him a Pennsylvanian)
Wikipedia article, "Tannehill Ironworks." (location and that it supplied Selma)
Wikipedia article, "Wilson's Raid" (where I got the names of the burned ironworks)
Very clever riddle! It took some searching to find all the details, especially the New Jersey link!

Bonus: General Philip Kearny's horses. http://civilwartalk.com/threads/moscow.3302/
We met the general, or rather the Wyoming fort named for him, earlier this week.
 
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