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Civil War Artillery


Jefferson Barracks, Missouri


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS, MISSOURI
(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 & Company, Boston MA
Brennan Thomas M. Brennan, Nashville TN
Columbia Columbia Foundry, Georgetown DC
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
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 Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 215 JMW *226 62 817 7RH once in Kiefner-Kane Museum
6-pounder iron field gun, Model of 1827
FPF   JS   28     MONG compound
6-pounder iron field gun, model unknown
Columbia             going to Bella Fontaine Park
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Alger 124 BH 585 54 888   storage at erstwhile Kiefner-Kane Museum
6-pounder Confederate iron field gun
*Brennan             Jefferson Barracks Park
24-pounder iron siege guns, Model of 1819
FPF       37     upright at gate
FPF   RLB   37 5515   MONG compound
FPF       38     NatCem, upright
FPF       38     NatCem, upright
FPF             NatCem, upright
WPF       26     upright at gate
24-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1845
Tredegar       51     MONG compound, marked "SC"
Total Civil War cannon at Jefferson Barracks, MO: 12


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