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Civil War Artillery


Pea Ridge National Military Park


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT PEA RIDGE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, ARKANSAS
(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
Greenwood Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Marshall William D. Marshal & Co., St. Louis MO
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA

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 398 JMW *432 62 816 7RH  
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Alger 192 TJR 782 61 853   altered to false Napoleon
Ames       59 882 15RH James rifle Type 1
3.67-inch bronze field rifle
Ames 3 GTB   61 874 10RH envelope of M1841
3.8-inch bronze James rifles, Type 1
Ames 531     61 870 15RH  
Ames       61   15RH  
3.8-inch bronze James rifles, Type 2 Series 4
Ames 72 *GTB 111 62 914 10RH  
Ames 84 none 126 62 919 10RH  
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Alger 45 GTB 51 62 1237   apparently made by Ames for Alger
Alger 56 TJR 1049 62 1223    
Alger 132 TJR 1206 63 1240    
Alger 140 TJR 1489 63 1201    
Alger 145 TJR 1504 63 1212    
Ames 46 GTB *52 62 1225    
Greenwood 15 JRE 15 62 1211    
Revere 77 TJR 72 62 1194    
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1838
Ames 15 JWR   40 691    
12-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 204 JPF 887 61 786    
Ames 45 JWR   46 786    
Marshall 44 none   61 786    
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, Model of 1835
Ames *34 *ABD 19*63 *222   museum
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortar, Model of 1838
Alger 45 TJR   63 170    
Total Civil War cannon at Pea Ridge National Military Park, AR: 22


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