National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, West Virginia


SURVIVING CANNON AT HARPERS FERRY NHP, WV
(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
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville PA
unknown foundry unmarked and unknown
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
3-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
Phoenix 649 TTSL *701 63 816 7RH Bolivar Heights
Phoenix 777 SCL *836 64 816 7RH Bolivar Heights
3.3-inch Army Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF none none 229 61 904 3RH purchased by Union Committee of NYC
6-pounder Confederate bronze field gun
unknown         764   ordnance shape, unmarked except for weight
3.67-inch (20-pounder) Navy Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF 82 *RBH *694 61 *1695 5RH from Kennesaw Mtn NBP via Gettysburg NMP
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortar, Model of 1838
Alger 14 TJR 1060 62 166   from Petersburg NB
Total Civil War cannon at Harpers Ferry: 6


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