National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Leavenworth, Kansas


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.


SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS
(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
FPFFort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
GreenwoodMiles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
RevereRevere Copper Co., Boston MA
WPF West Point Foundry, Cold Spring NY

FOUNDRYREG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
3-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 520 CCC *554 62 816 7RH from Ft. Sill
4-pounder bronze field gun
Ames       53 278   from Smithsonian
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1838
Alger 52 WM   41 697   museum, from Ft. Belvoir
4.2-inch (30-pounder) Army Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF 108 RPP *313 62 *4350 5RH  
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Greenwood 5 *JRE   62 1209    
Greenwood       62     damaged
Revere 207 TJR 214 63 1238    
Revere 245 TJR 212 63 1220    
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzers, Model of 1835
Alger 203 JPF 957 62 219   in wall of chapel
Alger 243 TJR 1291 63 221   in wall of chapel
Alger 244 TJR 1292 63 219   in wall of chapel
Ames 32 ABD *20 63 *222   in wall of chapel
Ames 47 ABD 65 63 228   in wall of chapel
Ames 50 ABD 61 63 222   in wall of chapel
24-pounder siege guns, Model of 1819
FPF 176 WM   38 5562    
WPF 8 JB 804 26 5597   "2" and "DCCCIV" on knob
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars, Model of 1838
Ames 54 ABD 109 62 162   museum
Ames 65 ABD 124 63 162   museum, from Ft. Sill
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Leavenworth, KS: 18


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