National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Donelson National Military Park


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.


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT DONELSON NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, TENNESSEE
(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
 
AlgerCyrus Alger & Co., Boston MA
AmesN.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Manufacturing Co., MA
Bellona Bellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
Brennan Thomas M. Brennan, Nashville TN
GreenwoodMiles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
NobleNoble Brothers & Co., Rome GA
Q & R Quinby & Robinson, Memphis TN
RevereRevere Copper Co., Boston MA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry or Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond VA
WPF West Point Foundry, Cold Spring NY

FOUNDRY REG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Alger 74 JWR   44 891    
Alger 185 TJR 723 61 887    
Ames 80 JWR   43 883    
Ames   JWR   46 882    
Ames 290 JWR   47 880    
Greenwood 42 JWS   61 882    
6-pounder bronze James gun, Model of 1861
Ames CT     64 861   marked "W.A.B." & "STATE OF CONN."
6-pounder Confederate iron field gun
Brennan 46            
3.67-inch bronze field rifle
Ames 4 GTB   61 871 10RH envelope of M1841
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 1
Ames       61 868 15RH  
12-pounder bronze field gun, heavy, Model of 1841
Ames 53 BH 35 54 1746    
12-pounder Confederate iron siege guns
Q & R?             marks faded
Q & R?             marked "MEMPHIS 1862 HA---LESTON"
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1841
Alger 189 TJR 828 61 787    
12-pounder Confederate iron field howitzer
Noble            "OCTOBER ----"
32-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1829
Bellona 141 JB   30 7466   Water Battery
Bellona 275 WJW   33 *7541   Water Battery
32-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1845
Tredegar 21 AM   46 7185    
Tredegar 26 AM   46 7159   Water Battery
Tredegar 52 AM   46 7234   Water Battery
32-pounder Navy guns, 62 hundredweight, Gradual Increase
WPFA *87     20 60-1-26   Water Battery
Bellona 112     21 60-2-24   Water Battery
*WPFA 159           served on USS Congress
8-inch siege howitzer, Model of 1840
WPF 7 RLB *8 46 2620   Overlook
10-inch Confederate Columbiad
Tredegar     1735 63     Water Battery
Total cannon at Fort Donelson National Military Park, TN: 25


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