This listing was provided by Civil War artillery historian Wayne Stark, who created and maintains the "National Register of Surviving Civil War Artillery" containing 5,499 known survivors. A member of the Company of Military Historians, Mr. Stark is a nationally recognized authority on Civil War era cannon. He is well known to the subscribers of The Artilleryman as the compiler of the Register, and has performed invaluable service in making his research in the ordnance records of both the Union and Confederate armies available to researchers everywhere.
Mr. Stark recently co-authored The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast and Naval Cannon, with Edwin Olmstead and Spencer C. Tucker. He welcomes queries about his work; if you have questions regarding the cannon listed below or information about his recently published book, e-mail him at starkgun@usaor.net.
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Mr. Stark has generously entered into a collaboration with the Civil War Artillery Page to make this material available to a wider public. The following table lists battlefield parks, forts, and other historic sites with collections of ten or more cannon; click on a link to see a complete list of the cannon at that location. Specific locations noted are the most recent known; however, some of these may have changed.
This list is now complete only in the sense of the goal we originally set for ourselves. We will continue to add smaller collections from time to time, beginning with such places of historical interest as Andersonville, Harpers Ferry, Fort Morgan and Fort Pickens.
For illustrations and descriptions of the enormous variety of ordnance to be found at the sites listed below, see:
The Encyclopedia
of Civil War Artillery
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