National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery

Fort Monroe, Virginia

SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA
(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
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Company, Cincinnati OH
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
SBIW South Boston Iron Works (later name for Alger)
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry or Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond VA
Vienna cannon made in Vienna, Austria
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 506 CCC *540 62 816 7RH once there if no longer
Phoenix 597 TTSL *638 63 816 7RH Casemate Museum
3-inch Confederate bronze field rifles
Tredegar     1194 61   12RH Building 133
Tredegar     1196 61   12RH Building 133
6-pounder (3.74-inch) Austrian bronze field guns
Vienna 171     12 754   Casemate Museum
Vienna 280     57 729   Casemate Museum
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 2 Series 3
Ames       62 912 10RH Casemate Museum, worn
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Ames 57 ABD 82 62 1227   muzzle face polished
Hooper *270 *TJR 292 63     muzzle face worn
Revere 443 RMH 449 64 1228   Casemate Museum
12-pounder Confederate bronze field howitzers
Tredegar     1556 62 764   Casemate Museum
Tredegar     1612 62 860   cast from melted James rifles
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars, Model of 1838
Ames 3 JWR 61 55 161   Casemate Museum
Ames 131 RMH 186 64 161   Casemate Museum
32-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1845
Tredegar 6 AM 201 46 7152   West Bastion, "201" on muzzle face
Tredegar 58 AM 238 46 7206   West Bastion, "238" on muzzle face
32-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1844
Alger 2 JWR   49 1926   Building 133
Alger 3 JWR   49 1930   Building 133
10-inch Rodman gun, Model of 1861
FPF 457 SCL 2979 65 14946   Cannon Park
10-inch Rodman guns sleeved to 8-inch rifles
SBIW 68 DAL 844 84 15900 24RH originally WPF No.98, RMH, 1866, 14742#
WPF 5 CSS 2111 76 15670 15RH orig. Alger No.110, JGB, 1866, 15130#
15-inch Rodman gun, prototype
FPF 1 TJR 364 60 49392   with elevating ratchets
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Monroe, Virginia: 22

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