National Register of Surviving
Civil War Artillery

Watervliet Arsenal, New York

CIVIL WAR CANNON AT WATERVLIET ARSENAL, 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
 
Alger Cyrus Alger & Company, Boston MA
Ames N.P. Ames, J.T. Ames or Ames Mfg. Co., MA
FPF Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh PA
Hooper Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston MA
Phoenix Phoenix Iron Co., Phoenixville PA
Revere Revere Copper Co., Boston MA
S & P Samson & Pae, Richmond VA
Tredegar Tredegar Foundry, Richmond VA
unknown foundry unmarked 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
1.57-inch Williams gun, cast at Tredegar Foundry
S & P 4   4       museum, "RICHMOND/PATd/NOV.5 1862"
3-inch Ordnance Rifle, Model of 1861
Phoenix 171 JMW *182 62 817 7RH museum, altered to BL salute gun
3-inch Clay wrought-iron breechloading rifle
unknown             museum, possibly USMA Trophy No.189
3.67-inch (20-pounder) Navy Parrott rifle
WPF 249 RBH   63 1742 5RH museum
12-pounder bronze field guns, heavy, Model of 1835
Alger 6 GT   38 1842   museum
Alger 11 GT   38 1813   museum
12-pounder bronze Napoleons, Model of 1857
Hooper 144 TJR 154 63 1219   museum, from Ft. Johnson
Hooper 157 TJR 168 63 1236   museum, from Ft. Johnson
Hooper 302 TJR 324 63 1232   museum, from Stony Point
12-pounder Confederate iron Napoleons
Tredegar         1256   museum, pitted
Tredegar             museum, encrusted
Tredegar             museum, encrusted
12-pounder Confederate iron field howitzer, Model of 1862
Tredegar       61     museum
24-pounder bronze Coehorn mortars, Model of 1838
Alger 34 TJR 1399 63 170   museum
Ames 33 GTB 100 62 162   museum
Ames 71 ABD 139 63 161   museum
8-inch Army Parrott rifle
WPF 42 DWF 641 64 16532 11RH near main gate
10-inch seacoast mortar, Model of 1840
WPF 2 RLB *484 42 5704   museum, "263" & "2" on ear
13-inch seacoast mortar, Model of 1861
FPF 992 JMB 992 62 17200   museum
Total Civil War cannon at Watervliet Arsenal, NY: 19
NOTE: 12-pounder Confederate iron Napoleon, Tredegar No.2191, is on display at City Hall in Watervliet.

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