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Civil War Artillery

United States Military Academy

CIVIL WAR CANNON AT UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORK
(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
 
Aker foundry in Sweden
Alger Cyrus Alger & Company, Boston MA
Ames N.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Mfg. Co., MA
Bellona Bellona Foundry, Midlothian VA
Clark John Clark & Co., New Orleans LA
Elswick Elswick Ordnance Co., English firm of Sir William G. Armstrong's
Fawcett Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool, England
Forrester Forrester & Co., Liverpool, England
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Greenleaf Greenleaf Foundry, Quincy IL
Hooper Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
Leeds Leeds & Co., New Orleans LA
Low Moor Low Moor Iron Co., England
Manchester Manchester Ordnance & Rifle Co., England
Marshall William D. Marshall & Co., St. Louis MO
Noble Noble Brothers & Co., Rome GA
ODonnell inferred New York City foundry of Norman Wiard
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Reading A.B. Reading & Brother, Vicksburg MS
Revere Revere Copper Co., Boston MA
S & P Samson & Pae, Richmond VA
SMcM Seyfert, McManus & Co., Reading PA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
unknown foundry unmarked or unreadable
Vauxhall Vauxhall Foundry, Liverpool, England
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
1.57-inch Williams gun, cast at Tredegar Foundry
S & P             Patent Model, from Smithsonian
2-1/8-inch wrought-iron Woodruff Guns
Greenleaf             Museum
Greenleaf             Museum
2.25-inch Confederate bronze mountain rifles
Tredegar     1401 62 202 3RH  
Tredegar     1433 62 196 3RH  
2.6-inch Wiard puddled wrought-iron rifle
ODonnell 35     62   8LH  
2.75-inch Whitworth steel breechloading rifle
Manchester           6RH  
2.9-inch (10-pounder) Army Parrott rifles, Model of 1861
WPF 191 RPP *853 62 900 3RH  
WPF           3RH  
2.9-inch (10-pounder) Confederate Navy Parrott rifle
Tredegar     1424 *62   3RH with underloop
3-inch Army Parrott Rifles, Model of 1863
WPF 37 DWF   64 893 3RH  
WPF 41 DWF   64 892 3RH former boundary marker
WPF 80 DWF   64 892 3RH  
WPF 85 RMH   64 890 3RH former boundary marker
WPF 95 RMH *11 64 895 3RH from Petersburg trenches
WPF 109 RMH   64 888 3RH  
3-inch Confederate Army Parrott Rifles
Tredegar           12LH muzzle off, Port Hudson capture
Tredegar           12LH muzzle off, Port Hudson capture
3-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 100 TTSL 110 61 815 7RH  
3-inch experimental field rifle
Hooper 2 none none 64 1372 7RH reportedly made of German silver
3-inch Armstrong steel muzzleloading rifle
Elswick       64 1009 3RH  
4-pounder iron field gun
Alger       57     library wall, "A.M." on basering
3.3-inch Confederate bronze field rifles
Leeds     11 61   7LH  
Leeds     27 61   7LH Port Hudson capture
Leeds     33 61   7LH  
3.5-inch Blakely wrought-iron rifle, Ripley Type 2
Fawcett 25   26 61   7RH  
3.5-inch Blakely wrought-iron rifle, Ripley Type 3
Forrester       62   6RH  
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1835
Alger 25 GT   38 733   Trophy Point
Ames   GT   38     Cullum Hall
6-pounder bronze field guns, Model of 1841
Ames 321 JWR   47 885 15RH museum, James Type 1
Ames       53     Battle Monument, buried muzzle down
Marshall       61     muzzle struck, Port Hudson capture
6-pounder Confederate bronze field guns
Clark     133       "Jeff Davis", Port Hudson capture
Clark             "Johnson", Port Hudson capture
Leeds     -6 62     Battle Monument, buried muzzle down
Noble none     62     marked "MAY/1862"
Reading     35 62     Cullum Hall, Port Hudson capture
6-pounder (3.74-inch) Austrian bronze field gun
Vienna       46     Trophy Point
3.67-inch (20-pounder) Army Parrott rifle
WPF 240 DWF 626 64 1742 5RH Trophy Point
3.8-inch bronze James rifle, Type 2 Series 4
Ames 69 GTB   62 922 10RH Trophy Point
FOUNDRY REG#INSP FDY#YR WEIGHT GRVS COMMENTS
4.2-inch (30-pounder) Army Parrott rifle
WPF 193 AM   63 4238 5RH fragments
4.2-inch (30-pounder) Confederate Parrott rifle
Tredegar     2154 64 4730 5RH  
12-pounder bronze field gun, heavy, Model of 1841
Ames 26 LABW 120 53 1773   Trophy Point
12-pounder Bishop breechloading field gun
unknown             Trophy Point
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Alger 94 TJR 1132 62 1212   Trophy Point
Revere 328 TJR 338 63 1231   Trophy Point
12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, Model of 1835
Alger 292 TJR 1340 63 220    
5.0-inch steel Whitworth rifle
unknown 11         6RH Trophy Point
5.1-inch iron and bronze Dahlgren rifle
FPF           12RH bronze trunnion band
18-pounder iron siege gun, Model of 1845
WPF 2 RLB *851 45 4880   Trophy Point
24-pounder siege gun, Model of 1819
WPF   JB 7-- 26   5RH rifled, unbanded, knob:"DCC---"
24-pounder foreign iron breechloading siege gun
Aker       47     Trophy Point
24-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1841
Alger 21 TJR 1196 62 1337   Trophy Point
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortar, Model of 1838
Ames 2 JWR   55 161    
6.4-inch Army Parrott rifles
WPF 133 AM 871 63 9804 9RH  
WPF 175 RMH   64 9707 9RH  
42-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1831
WPF 62 JWR   39 8570 12RH Trophy Point, experimental 7.3-in rifle
42-pounder seacoast gun, Model of 1840
WPF 21 RLB *847 45 8466   Trophy Point
7-inch single banded Brooke rifle
Tredegar   *ADB 1641 62 *15165 7RH  
50-pounder seacoast Columbiad, Model of 1811
unknown         6256   Trophy Point
8-inch seacoast howitzer, Model of 1840
WPF 7 RLB *436 42 5752   Trophy Point
8-inch Armstrong rifle
Elswick 1207   1207 64 15737 6RH in storage
8-inch Blakely navy rifle
Low Moor       62   3RH no right trunnion
10-inch Rodman guns, Model of 1861
SMcM 30 SCL *53 64 14960   there since issued in 1864
WPF 32 RMH *733 65 14932    
WPF 56 RMH *762 65 14957    
10-inch Rodman gun sleeved to 8-inch rifle via muzzle
insertion WPF 2 CSS 2297 76 16065 15RH originally Alger No.175/JGB/1867/15110#
10-inch Confederate Columbiad
Bellona 67 RMC   64 15860    
10-inch siege mortar, circa 1807
unknown             Trophy Point, muzzle down
10-inch siege mortars, circa 1807
Alger 24 CC   64 1965   Sedgwick Monument
Alger 26 CC   64 1965   Sedgwick Monument
12.75-inch Blakely rifle
Vauxhall         60000+ 4RH breech & part of tube
16-inch bronze stone mortar, Model of 1839
Ames 1 JWR 40 1496      
Total Civil War cannon at USMA, West Point, NY: 73

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