National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery


Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina


SURVIVING CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, SOUTH CAROLINA
(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
 
AlgerCyrus Alger & Co., Boston MA
FoxallHenry Foxall, owner of Columbia Foundry. Georgetown DC
SMcM-SFScott Foundry of Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
unknownfoundry name is not readable due to pitting or paint
WPFWest 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
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, Model of 1835
Alger 254 TJR 1302 63 221      
6.4-inch (100-pounder) Army Parrott rifles
WPF 46 AM 357 62 9826 9RH pitted
WPF 183 RMH 825 64 9702 9RH pitted
WPF 188 RMH 694 64 9753 9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
6.4-inch (100-pounder) Navy Parrott rifles
WPF 84   835* 63 9802 9RH pitted
WPF 96     63 9722 9RH pitted
WPF           9RH pitted
42-pounder seacoast guns, Model of 1845
Alger 2 BH   *56 8500   pitted
unknown           7RHpitted, banded & rifled
8-inch Columbiad, Model of 1844
unknown             muzzle off
8-inch Army Parrott rifle
WPF 58 RMH 876 64 16537 11RH pitted
10-inch Columbiad, Model of 1844, rifled and banded
Alger 9 *JWR *130 46 15585 15RH banded & rifled by Eason
10-inch seacoast mortar, circa 1807
Hughes 4       3861   conjoined "HF"
15-inch Rodman guns, Model of 1861
SMcM-SF 22 WP *557 67 5012-    
SMcM-SF 23 WP *558 67 49940    
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Sumter National Monument, SC: 20


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