National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Niagara, New York


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT NIAGARA, NEW YORK
(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
Columbia Columbia Foundry, Georgetown DC
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Greenwood Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Company, Boston MA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
unknown tube has no foundry marking
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
6-pounder iron field guns, unknown model
Columbia 30           no rimbases
Columbia 40           no rimbases
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Ames       45 884   north redoubt
Ames       47 886   north redoubt
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 1
Ames CT     61 869 15RH marked "STATE OF CONN," "12" on muzzle
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 2 Series 4
Ames 58 GTB 104 62 920 10RH  
4.5-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
FPF 10 DWF   61 3561 9RH from Oswego NY City Hall
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Alger 1 TJR 838 61 1232   w/handles
Alger 2 TJR 841 61 1225   w/handles
Alger 3 TJR 849 61 1228   w/handles
Ames 2 BH 137 57 1228   w/handles
Ames 3 BH 138 57 1228   w/handles
Ames 4 BH 139 57 1223   w/handles
Ames 7 PVH   61 1227   w/handles
Ames 8 PVH   61 1231   w/handles
Ames 14 GTB 1 61 1232   w/handles
Ames 16 GTB 16 61 1220   w/handles, defaced
Ames 17 GTB   61 1225   w/handles
Ames 20 GTB   61 1232   w/handles
Hooper *201 *TJR 221       worn
Revere 2 JPF 2 62 1223   w/handles
FOUNDRY REG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
12-pounder Confederate bronze Napoleon
Tredegar       63 1275   muzzle has been shortened
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1835
Alger 2 GT   37 712    
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1838
Alger 12 JWR   39 689    
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1841
Greenwood 72 none   61 789   no "U.S." or inspector's initials
12-pounder Confederate bronze field howitzers
Tredegar     1533 62 760   muzzle marked "E.B." for Edenton Battery
unknown             unmarked, kernel of corn knob
24-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 39 TJR 1386 63 1296    
Ames 8 JWR   47 1314    
24-pounder Austrian bronze field howitzer
Vienna 31            
6.4-inch (100-pounder) Army Parrott rifles
WPF 130 AM 775 63 9727 9RH South gate
WPF 205 RMH 967 64 9772 9RH South gate
8-inch siege mortar, Model of 1840
Alger 11 JWR   *42 932    
10-inch Rodman gun, Model of 1861
FPF 126 CPK 1643 63 14840   South Gate
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Niagara, NY: 35


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