National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Sill, Oklahoma


SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA
(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
Columbia Columbia Foundry, Georgetown DC
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Hooper Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
Manchstr Manchester Ordnance & Rifle Co., England
Noble Noble Brothers & Co., Rome GA
ODonnell presumed New York City foundry of Norman Wiard
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
unknown foundry is unknown or the markings unreadable
USNYW U.S. Navy Yard, Washington DC
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
2.6-inch Wiard puddled wrought-iron field rifle
ODonnell           8LH  
ODonnell           8LH  
2.75 Whitworth steel muzzleloading rifle
Manchstr 200     64 1037 6RH  
3-inch Army Parrott rifle, Model of 1863
WPF           3RH unreadable
3-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 91 TTSL 100 61 819 7RH altered to BL salute gun
Phoenix 231 TTSL *242 62 812 7RH in storage
Phoenix 535 CCC *569 62 814 7RH altered to salute gun
Phoenix 542 CCC *576 62 816 7RH captured from 10th MA at Reams's Sta
Phoenix 555 TTSL *590 63 816 7RH  
3-inch Confederate bronze rifle
Tredegar     1155 61 884 12LH marked "MISS"
3.4-inch Dahlgren bronze boat rifle
USNYW 256 JAD SH 63 873 12RH  
6-pounder iron field gun, Model of 1819
FPF             most markings unreadable
6-pounder iron field gun, model unknown
Columbia 302           NCO Club
Columbia 305           Commissary
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Ames 207 JWR   46 884    
Ames 440 JWR   53 884    
6-pounder Confederate bronze field gun
Noble none           "JUNE/1862"
Noble none     62 854   "DECEMBER/1862"
6-pounder (3.74-inch) Austrian bronze field gun
Vienna 34     32 689    
4.2-inch (30-pounder) Army Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF 94 RPP 251 62 4210 5RH  
12-pounder iron field gun, circa 1841
unknown             matches guns for comparison w/foreign
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Ames 15 GTB   61 1230   w/handles
Ames 40 GTB 45 62 1230    
Hooper 5 TJR 15 62 1246   Commissary
Revere 249 TJR 233 63 1233   storage
12-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Ames   JWR   47     Commissary, from Watervliet, #89.47.5
Ames   BH 143 58 788   OCS Hall/Fame, from Watervliet, #89.47.4
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, Model of 1835
Alger 120 JWR 527 53 224    
12-pounder Dahlgren bronze boat howitzer, light
USNYW 59 JAD CW 60 428    
24-pounder siege guns, Model of 1819
Columbia 143 JB   28 *5548   no lock piece, from Butte, MT
24-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 25 TJR 1216 63 1308    
Ames 4     42 1318    
24-pounder Austrian bronze field howitzer
Vienna 42     59 667   Commissary
24-pounder iron flank howitzers, Model of 1844
Alger   *JWR 47       QM Whse, from Ft. Arbuckle IT
Alger   *JWR 49       QM Whse, from Ft. Arbuckle IT
Alger   *JWR 49       storage, from Ft. Arbuckle IT
Alger   *JWR 49       storage, from Ft. Arbuckle IT
Alger   *JWR 49       storage, from Ft. Arbuckle IT
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars, Model of 1838
Ames 155 RMH 237 64 158   museum
Ames 159 RMH 244 64 161   museum
Ames 195 WAM 286 65 160   museum
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Sill, OK: 41


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