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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY |
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY |
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 | 12-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1840. Total length, 116 inches; weight, 3550 pounds; total production, 20; known survivor: 1. This model differs from the Model of 1845 only in having a single tapered reinforce 51 inches long. |
 | 12-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1845. Total length, 116 inches; weight, 3583 pounds; total production, 43; known survivors, 10. While difficult to see in the photo, this model has a cylindrical first reinforce 17 inches long and a second tapered reinforce with a length of 34 inches. All other features and dimensions are identical to the Model of 1840. |
 | 12-pounder iron siege gun, Confederate. Pictured is one of two identical guns surviving at Rock Island National Cemetery. While apparently unmarked, these are almost certainly of Confederate manufacture, perhaps made in Memphis, TN. Two others for which we have no reproducible photo survive at Fort Donelson National Military Park, TN. The limited readable markings indicate the latter were made in Memphis. |
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 | 24-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1819. Total length, 123.95 inches; weight, specified as 5790 pounds but actual weights averaged close to 5500 pounds; total production, 1,125; known survivors, 74. Some of these in Confederate hands, including at least six of the known survivors, were rifled during the Civil War. |
 | 24-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1840. Total length, 124 inches; weight, 5750 pounds; Army Ordnance documents tally production of only one gun of this model (in 1841). The only two known survivors have the "U.S." marking and are dated 1844; so production, although unknown, was higher than indicated by the records. This model has a single tapered reinforce 54 inches long. |
 | 24-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1845. Specifications are the same as the Model of 1840 above. The only difference is that the Model of 1845 has a cylindrical first reinforce 22 inches long and a second tapered reinforce 32 inches long. In addition to total production of 66 Model of 1845 guns by Alger, Tredegar and West Point Foundries from 1845 to 1853, four 1851-dated survivors marked for South Carolina indicate Tredegar also contracted directly with individual states. Known survivors, 14. |
 | Confederate 8-inch banded siege gun. Tredegar Foundry cast 19 of these guns during the latter part of 1863 and through July 1864. Bellona Foundry also cast as many as 16, the last of which was finished at Tredegar as late as 6 March 1865. Like Brooke rifles and smoothbore guns, the chase is a simple truncated cone. While there is no known surviving specimen or dimensioned drawing of this gun, Tredegar records document the finished weight of those cast there averaged 5,862 pounds. |