National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Richmond National Battlefield Park


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT RICHMOND NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK
(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 & Co., Boston MA
Ames N.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Manufacturing Co. in MA
Bellona Bellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Co., Boston MA
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Co., Boston MA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry or Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond VA
unknown foundry is either not marked or unreadable
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
3-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 802 SCL *861 64 816 7RH Ft. Harrison storage
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Tredegar 1           Visitors' Ctr Museum, pre-War markings
3.67-inch (20-pounder) Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF 2 RPP *339 61 1675 5RH Stuart mon't on Telegraph Road
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Alger 20 TJR 919 62 1217   Malvern Hill
Hooper 94 TJR 103 63 1237   Malvern Hill from Stony Pt, NY
Hooper 97 TJR 106 63 1239   from Stony Point, NY
Hooper 206 TJR 226 63 1233   from Stony Point, NY
Hooper 243 TJR 263 63 1235   Watt House
Revere 1 JPF 16 62 1194   Malvern Hill
Revere 22 TJR 23 62 1194   Malvern Hill
Revere 255 TJR 265 63 1230   Malvern Hill
Revere 277 TJR 288 63 1227    
Revere 341 TJR 353 63 1237   Watt House
Revere 348 TJR 365 63 1233   Malvern Hill
12-pounder Confederate bronze Napoleons
Tredegar     1---   1253   Visitors Center
Tredegar     1770 63 1270   Ft. Harrison Visitors' Center
12-pounder Confederate iron field howitzers, Model of 1862
Tredegar            Maintenance storage
Tredegar             Maintenance storage
FOUNDRY REG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars
Alger 47 TJR 1412 63 171   Ft. Harrison storage
Ames 46 ABD 111 62 164   Ft. Harrison storage
Ames 135 RMH 201 64 163   Ft. Harrison storage
Ames 154 RMH 236 64 160   Visitors Center
32-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1829
Bellona 142 JB   30     upright in Cold Harbor NatCem
Bellona 160 JB   30 *7470   upright in Ft. Harrison NatCem
Bellona 456 JWR   *39 *7566   upright in Seven Pines NatCem
unknown -0 JB   31     upright in Glendale NatCem
32-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1845
Tredegar 3 *AM   46 *7251   upright in NatCem
Tredegar 29 *AM   46 *7256   upright in NatCem
Tredegar 46 *AM   46 *7189   upright in NatCem
Tredegar 53 *AM   46 *7211   upright in NatCem
6.4-inch double banded Brooke rifle
Tredegar   ADB 1633 62 9400 7RH from Ft. Jay
42-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1845, rifled and banded
Tredegar 107 BH 1086 59 none 9RH Visitors' Center
8-inch Confederate Columbiad
Bellona 66     62 8800   Ft. Darling
Total Civil War cannon at Richmond National Battlefield Park: 33
(an additional 18 cannon are on display at various locations in Richmond)


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