National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Stones River National Battlefield


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT STONES RIVER NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
(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
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Greenwood Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Hooper Henry N. Hooper and Company, Boston MA
ODonnell presumed New York City foundry of Norman Wiard
Marshall William D. Marshall & Co., St. Louis MO
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
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 rifles
ODonnell           8LH apparently unmarked, no rifling evident
ODonnell           8LH apparently unmarked, no rifling evident
2.9-inch (10-pounder) Parrott rifle, Model of 1861
WPF 213 RPP 970 62 900 3RH  
3-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
Phoenix 49 TTSL 54 61 819 7RH  
Phoenix 126 JMW 137 62 817 7RH  
Phoenix 310 TTSL 327 62 816 7RH  
Phoenix 769 SCL 828 64 816 7RH  
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Alger 120 BH 581 54 885   false Napoleon, engraved
Marshall 7     61 893   "7" is reversed
3.67-inch bronze field rifle
Greenwood 9     61 861 8RH  
3.67-inch Wiard puddled wrought-iron field rifles
ODonnell 55     62 1169 12LH on carriage
ODonnell           12LH no markings
3.8-inch bronze James rifles, Type 1
Ames CT     61 872 15RH "W.A.B." & STATE OF CONN."
Ames       61 872 15RH  
Greenwood 22     61 866 15RH  
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 2 Series 1
Ames 3 GTB   61 933 7RH  
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 2 Series 4
Ames 25 GTB 25 61 917 10RH  
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Greenwood 1-     62 1192   engraved for Col. Wm.D. Moore
Greenwood 24 JRE 24 62 1212   engraved for LtCol W.E. Morgan
Hooper 229 TJR 249 63 1222    
Revere 390 CC 426 64 1240    
12-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Alger 196 TJR 839 61      
Ames CT   --2 62 795   tube stamped "W.A.B." & "STATE OF CONN."
24-pounder siege guns, Model of 1819
FPF 131 WM   37 *5513   upright in NatCem
FPF 163 JWR   38 *5539  upright in NatCem
Total Civil War cannon at Stones River National Battlefield: 26


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