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Civil War Artillery


Wilson's Creek National Battlefield


CIVIL WAR CANNON AT WILSON'S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD, MISSOURI
(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 Mfg. Co., MA
Greenwood Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati OH
Hooper Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
unmarked no foundry indicated on tube
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
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1835
Alger 23 GT   38 744   from Shiloh NMP
6-pounder bronze field gun, Model of 1841
Ames 410   *60 51 884 15RH James Type 1, "L.B.DAVIES," damaged
3.67-inch bronze field rifle
Ames 2 GTB   61 865 10RH from Pea Ridge NMP
3.8-inch bronze James rifles, Type 1
Ames       61 870 15RH from Fredericksburg, "1861" on muzzle
Greenwood 25     61 856 15RH from Cumberland Gap
12-pounder bronze Napoleon, Model of 1857
Hooper 105 TJR 114 63 1240   from Stony Point, NY
12-pounder bronze field howitzer, Model of 1838
Ames 13 JWR   40 690   from Appomattox
12-pounder bronze field howitzers, Model of 1841
Ames 7 JWR   42 785   from Kennesaw Mtn NBP
Ames 37 JWR   46 786   from Pea Ridge NMP
Ames 66 JWR   47 789   from Kennesaw Mtn NBP
12-pounder Confederate bronze field howitzer
unknown             assumed unmarked Confederate
24-pounder iron siege guns, Model of 1819
WPF 246 JB   29 5535   from Springfield MO NatCem
WPF 250 JB 1198 29 5507   from Springfield MO NatCem
Total Civil War cannon at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, MO: 13


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