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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY |
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY |
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 | 6-pounder bronze James gun. Total length, 74 inches; weight, 860 pounds; Ames Co. cast six of these guns for U.S. Army Ordnance in late 1861. All survive at Shiloh National Military Park. An unknown quantity, of which four are known to survive, was later made for State of Connecticut (survivors are dated 1862 and 1864). |
 | 6-pounder iron Stedman field gun. Total length, 69.5 inches; weight unknown. An unknown quantity of these guns was made in 1861 by Stedman & Co. of Aurora IN, of which two survive. Little is known of their wartime service, if any. |
 | 6-pounder wrought-iron Griffen field gun, Type 2. Total length, 72 inches; weight, 1030 pounds; total production, perhaps 18 made of wrought iron by Phoenix Iron Company for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1861; known survivors, 13. Little is known of their wartime service, if any. |
 | 6-pounder Austrian bronze field gun. Total length, 61.5 inches; weight, 730 pounds. Of at least seventeen of these guns purchased in Europe for the Confederacy by Major Caleb Huse, six are known to survive. Because their bore diameter is 3.74 inches, rather than the 3.67 of American 6-pounders, the Confederate Field manual of 1862 advised that standard ammunition was to be wrapped in canvas for satisfactory performance. |
 | 6-pounder Brennan (Confederate) iron field gun. Total length, 66 inches; weight, 890 pounds; total quantity, about 30; known survivors, 11. |
 | 6-pounder Clark (Confederate) bronze field gun. Total length, 65.5 inches; weights of 12 known survivors vary from 820 to 894 pounds. The quantity of these guns cast is unknown but was probably about 50. Some Clark guns are completely marked and often profusely engraved; others have no markings but are easily identified by the bulbous muzzle swell unique to cannon cast by John Clark of New Orleans. |
 | 6-pounder Ellis & Moore (Confederate) iron field gun. Total length, 65.6 inches; weight, 1010 pounds; quantity made, unknown but probably 6; known survivors, 2. One of these guns is known to have been captured at Fort Zollicoffer. Ellis & Moore was located at Nashville TN. |
 | 6-pounder Leach & Avery (Confederate) iron field gun. Total length, 66 inches; weight, 766 pounds; quantity made, unknown but small. This extremely well-finished gun is the only known surviving cannon made by Leach & Avery of Tuscaloosa AL, probably in 1861. |
 | 6-pounder Noble (Confederate) bronze field gun. Total length, 72 inches; weights of eight known survivors vary from 835 to 920 pounds. Surviving records indicate that about 20 of these bronze guns were cast by Noble Brothers of Rome GA. All eight surviving Noble bronze guns were cast in 1862 and have a distinctive flattened knob suggestive of a spool of thread. |
 | 6-pounder Noble (Confederate) iron field gun. Total length. 72.5; weight, 900 pounds; quantity made, unknown; known survivors, 5. Survivors found both with and without muzzle swell. The same pattern was used by Tredegar Foundry to cast at least 31, and possibly 40, nearly identical 6-pounder iron guns of which there are 10 known survivors. The only difference between Noble and Tredegar guns of this pattern is the faired rimbases on the latter. Note that this pattern is similar to the Brennan 6-pounder iron guns that are 6.5 inches shorter. The bulbous breech is the distinctive feature of these Confederate iron guns. |
 | 6-pounder Noble (Confederate) iron field gun. Total length, 59 inches; weight, unknown; quantity made, unknown. Neither the single gun nor the three surviving 3-inch rifles made with the same pattern bear any markings other than post-war arsenal inventory numbers; however, the knob shape almost certainly identifies them as Noble tubes. |
 | 6-pounder Paxton (Confederate) bronze field gun. Total length, 65 inches; weight, 860 pounds; total production, 14 from late 1861 through mid-1862. Known survivor, 1. A.M. Paxton of Vicksburg MS also finished two bronze guns cast by Quinby & Robinson. |
 | 6-pounder Tredegar (Confederate) bronze field gun. Total length, 65.6 inches; weight, 860 pounds; total production, 34; known survivors, 11. Identical to Federal Model of 1841. |