National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Taylor, Florida


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT TAYLOR, FLORIDA
(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
 
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
SMcM Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
unknown foundry unknown due to pitting or encrustation
WPF West Point Foundry, Cold Spring NY

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
8-inch Columbiads, Model of 1844
FPF 43 EH   46 *9205   pitted, excavated there
FPF 49 EH   46 9224   recovered from casemates
8-inch siege mortar, Model of 1840
WPF 4 BH *245 61 945    
10-inch Rodman guns, Model of 1861
FPF 364 SCL*2820 65 14910    
FPF 466 SCL*2997 65 14955    
FPF 478 SCL*2990 65 14990    
FPF 591 CC 3263 66 15000   Officers' Mess
SMcM 215 JGB   66 15282    
SMcM   JGB   66 15264   perhaps 15204#?
unknown             not yet cleaned when studied
10-inch Columbiads, Model of 1844
WPF 14 JS 587 53 15374   recovered from casemates
WPF 26 BH 567 54 15412   recovered from casemates
10-inch (300-pounder) Army Parrott rifles
WPF 28 RMH *727 65 26910 15RH  
WPF 29 *RMH *734 65 *27010 15RH  
Total Civil War Cannon at Fort Taylor, FL: 14


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