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Civil War Artillery


Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT KENNESAW MOUNTAIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK
(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
Ames N.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Manufacturing Company, MA
Greenwood Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Company, Boston MA
Macon Macon Arsenal, Macon GA
Noble Noble Brothers & Co., Rome GA
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
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 (10-pounder) Parrott rifles, Model of 1863
WPF 24 DWF *316 64 895 3RH Cheatham Hill
WPF 33 DWF 322 64 896 3RH Cheatham Hill
3-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
Phoenix 540 CCC *574 62 816 7RH in storage
Phoenix 718 SCL *774 64 816 7RH Visitors' Center
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Alger 852   852 61     Little Kennesaw Mountain
Ames 465 BH 10 54 878   Little Kennesaw Mountain
Greenwood 38     61 863   Visitors' Center
6-pounder Confederate bronze field gun
Noble none LJS   62 919   Visitors' Ctr, marked "SEPTEMBER/1862"
3.67-inch bronze field rifle
Ames 5 GTB   61 872 10RH envelope of M1841
3.8-inch bronze James rifles, Type 1
Greenwood 31     61 870 15RH Little Kennesaw Mountain
Ames 537     61 871 15RHLittle Kennesaw Mtn.; from Manassas NBP, stamped "U.S."
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Alger 60 TJR 1072 62 1232   mountain top
Ames 36 GTB 40 62 1213   mountain top
Hooper 143 TJR 153 63 1220   Cheatham Hill
Revere 91 TJR 98 62 1242   mountain top
12-pounder Confederate bronze Napoleon
Macon 15 JGC 18 63 1175   Cheatham Hill, from Stones River
12-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 195 TJR 837 61 784   Cheatham Hill
Ames 44 JWR   46 785   Cheatham Hill
Ames 117 JWR 197 53 787   Visitors' Center
24-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1841
Ames 3 GTB   61 1304   near Visitors' Center
Total Civil War cannon at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: 19


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  • Last updated 7/9/98 - CTB