National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, ILLINOIS
(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
AugustaAugusta Foundry (Gov't Foundry & Machine Works), Augusta GA
Bellona Bellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
Columbus Columbus Arsenal, Columbus GA
Fawcett Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool, England
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Company, Boston MA
Leeds Leeds & Co., New Orleans LA
Noble Noble Brothers & Co., Rome GA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
SMcM Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
unknown foundry is unknown or the markings are unreadable
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
3.5-inch Blakely field rifle, Ripley Type 6
Fawcett     69 61   7RH John M. Browning Memorial Museum
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1838
Alger MA18     43 689   main gate, stamped "MASS"
6-pounder Confederate bronze field guns
Noble none     62 835   Confederate Cemetery, "SEPTEMBER/1862"
Noble none     62 856   Confederate Cemetery, "NOVEMBER/1862"
6-pounder (3.74-inch) Austrian bronze field gun
Vienna 900     46 704   main gate
4.2-inch (30-pounder) Army Parrott rifles
WPF 355 RMH 247 64 4190 5RH Arsenal HQ
WPF 356 RMH 249 64 4190 5RH Arsenal HQ
12-pounder bronze field gun, heavy, Model of 1841, rifled
Ames 1 CH   -1 1770 12RH basering:"RIFLED BY C.ALGER.BOSTON.MASS"
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Hooper 324 TJR 347 64 1239   Fort Armstrong site
Revere 189 TJR 203 63 1218   Fort Armstrong site
12-pounder Confederate bronze Napoleons
Augusta 57AF GWR   63 1300   Confederate Cemetery
Columbus 9 FCH 9 63 1187   Confederate Cemetery
Leeds     38       once there if no longer
12-pounder iron siege guns, possibly Confederate
unknown             upright in NatCem
unknown             upright in NatCem
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzers, Model of 1835
Alger 241 TJR 1287 63 220   main gate
Ames 24 ABD 29 63 222   main gate
24-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 17 TJR 1183 62 1323   John M. Browning Memorial Museum
Alger 22 TJR 1197 62 1324   John M. Browning Memorial Museum
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars, Model of 1838
Ames 78 ABD 125 63 163   John M. Browning Memorial Museum
Ames 80 ABD 141 63 163   John M. Browning Memorial Museum
Ames 81 ABD 142 63 161   John M. Browning Memorial Museum
32-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1829
FPF       32 738-   buried muzzle down
8-inch Confederate Columbiads
Bellona 45     62 8750   Rodman's Grave
Bellona 49     62 8750   Rodman's Grave
15-inch Rodman gun, Model of 1861
SMcM 6 MS 191 64 49612   Rodman's Grave
Total Civil War cannon at Rock Island Arsenal, IL: 26


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