National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia


SURVIVING CANNON AT ANDERSONVILLE NHS, GA
(Copyright 1998 Wayne Stark)

Abbreviations and Symbols
* Datum following inferred from contemporary documents
 
REG#Army or Navy Registry Number
INSPInitials of inspecting ordnance officer or other inspector
FDY#Foundry number (founder's own internal control number)
GRVSNumber of rifling grooves, Right or Left hand twist
YRYear cannon was completed and/or inspected
 
Alger Cyrus Alger & Co., Boston MA
Hooper Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
Marshall Marshall & Co., St. Louis MO
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA

Listings are in bore size order. Within a given bore size, the sequence is guns, howitzers, and rifles. With each of these, the order is field, then siege.

FOUNDRY REG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
3-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
Phoenix 32 TTSL *34 61 807 7RH recaptured near Columbia Furnace VA 10/9/64
Phoenix 48 TTSL 53 61 819 7RH  
Phoenix 80 TTSL *83 61 803 7RH  
Phoenix 172 JMW *183 62 817 7RH  
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Marshall 45     62 876   from Stones River NB and Shiloh NMP
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Hooper 182 TJR 202 63 1---   from Stones River NB
Hooper 240 TJR 260 63 1242   from Stones River NB
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1838
Alger MA2 AHD   40 688   from Kennesaw Mtn NBP, stamped "MASS"
Total Civil War cannon at Andersonville: 8


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