National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Moultrie, South Carolina


SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT MOULTRIE, SOUTH CAROLINA
(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
BellonaBellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
CharlestonCharleston Arsenal, Charleston SC
FPFFort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
HooperHenry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
SMcM-SFScott Foundry of Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
TredegarTredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
unknown foundry name is not marked on gun
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
12-pounder bronze Napoleon, Model of 1857
Hooper 273 TJR 295 63 1231   museum
12-pounder Confederate bronze Napoleon
Charleston       63 1219   stamped "CS"
24-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1819
WPF 306 WM 91 38 5475   "XCI" (91) on knob
32-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1829
Bellona 124 JB   30 7506   4 tiny "1" spaced around muzzle face
Bellona 163 JB   30 7458    
7-inch treble banded Brooke rifle
Tredegar     *1717 63 21290 7RH weight matches only this rifle
8-inch New Columbiad gun, Model of 1857
WPF 89 BH 970 *57 8975 8RH rifled & banded
8-inch Army Parrott rifle
WPF 56 RMH 884 64 16487 11RH  
10-inch Rodman gun, Model of 1861
FPF 156 RHKW 1669 63 14956    
FPF 182 RHKW 1790 63 14980    
10-inch Confederate Columbiad
Bellona       62     Main Gate
Tredegar     1656 62 13290    
Tredegar     1664 62 13360    
Tredegar     2005 64 *13369   Main Gate
10-inch Columbiad, Model of 1844, rifled & banded
Alger 7 JWR   46 15210 15RH banding & trunnions by Eason in 1863
10-inch Army Parrott rifle
WPF 5   531 64 26900 15RH pitted
13-inch seacoast mortar, Model of 1861
FPF 104 JRE 917 62 17196    
15-inch Rodman gun, Model of 1861
SMcM-SF 21 WP *556 66 49890    
SMcM-SF 24 WP 559 67 50070    
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Moultrie, SC: 19


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