National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Pulaski National Monument, Georgia


SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, GEORGIA
(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
Bellona Bellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
Columbia Columbia Foundry, Georgetown DC
Fawcett Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool, England
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
SMcM Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
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 gun, Model of 1834
Columbia 23 *JWR   36 *842    
4.2-inch Army Parrott rifles
WPF 2 RPP -40 61 4198 5RH badly pitted, unearthed @ Bty Hambright
WPF 41 RPP *757 61 4160 5RH badly pitted, unearthed @ Bty Hambright
WPF 333 RMH 83 64 4200 5RH  
WPF 335 RMH 970 64 4190 5RH  
4.5-inch Blakely rifles
Fawcett 41 -DB   61   7RH  
Fawcett 43   86 61   7RH  
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1841
Alger 784 TJR 784 61 797    
Ames 15 JWR   44 785    
24-pounder siege gun, Model of 1819
FPF 83 *RLB   37 5520    
24-pounder medium cannon for Sloop of War
Bellona 56 *ASW   *26 31-3-25   served on FAIRFIELD
24-pounder iron flank howitzer, Model of 1844
SMcM 40 SCL 10764 1498    
6.4-inch double banded Brooke rifle
Tredegar           7RH pitted
42-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1831
Columbia *19 *GDR   36 8700    
8-inch Confederate New Columbiad gun
Tredegar     *1140 61 9460   "G.A." on tube, muzzle blown off
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Pulaski National Monument, GA: 15


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