National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery

Fort Washington Park, Maryland

CIVIL WAR CANNON AT FORT WASHINGTON PARK, MARYLAND
(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
AmesN.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Manufacturing Company, MA
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Company, Boston MA
unknown foundry not marked or unreadable
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-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
Phoenix 158 JMW 169 62 817 7RH upright at park entrance
Phoenix 827 SCL *887 64 816 7RH upright at park entrance
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Alger 163 BH 632 57     foundry no. uncertain
Ames 33 JWR   42 882   extensively engraved
4.5-inch Ordnance Rifles, Model of 1861
FPF 23 *JM 1098 62 *3572 9RH upright at park entrance
FPF     1232     9RH upright at park entrance
24-pounder siege gun, Model of 1819
WPF 89 JB   27 5514   from Ft. Donelson
24-pounder flank howitzers, Model of 1844
Alger 291 JWR *773 49 *1510   inverted on ground
Alger 293 JWR *775 49 *1499   on ground
unknown             unreadable but has later chase ring loc.
unknown             unreadable but has later chase ring loc.
10-inch siege mortar, circa 1807
*Foxall             muzzle down, no visible marks
Total Civil War cannon at Fort Washington Park: 12

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