Confederate Phoenix Iron Works?

[USS ALASKA]

Sirs, while looking for something else, stumbled onto this...

Photographed by Mark Hilton, February 20, 2015
Taken: February 20, 2015
Caption: Phoenix Iron Works Marker
Submitted: February 25, 2015, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Location: Gretna, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish

Phoenix Iron Works Historical Marker

Approx. 200 feet SW of this site, cast first gun for the Confederate Navy on 4 May 1861. The gun, a Dalhgren cannon, fired an 8~inch diameter explosive shell. (A historical marker located in Gretna in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.)

www.hmdb.org

Anyone have any additional information? My Google-fu is weak on this.

Thanks for the help,
USS ALASKA

 

[DaveBrt]

Sirs, while looking for something else, stumbled onto this...

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Photographed by Mark Hilton, February 20, 2015
Taken: February 20, 2015
Caption: Phoenix Iron Works Marker
Submitted: February 25, 2015, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Location: Gretna, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish

Phoenix Iron Works Historical Marker

Approx. 200 feet SW of this site, cast first gun for the Confederate Navy on 4 May 1861. The gun, a Dalhgren cannon, fired an 8~inch diameter explosive shell. (A historical marker located in Gretna in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.)

www.hmdb.org

Anyone have any additional information? My Google-fu is weak on this.

Thanks for the help,
USS ALASKA

Confederate Cannon Foundries, Daniel & Gunter, 1977, agrees with the sign and adds "The N. O. Picayune of Sept 4, 1861 noted that several 18-pounder cannon had been turned out at the firm."

I have found noting else, but suspect the NO newspapers would have something.

 

[wausaubob]

Sirs, while looking for something else, stumbled onto this...

View attachment 535065

Photographed by Mark Hilton, February 20, 2015
Taken: February 20, 2015
Caption: Phoenix Iron Works Marker
Submitted: February 25, 2015, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Location: Gretna, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish

Phoenix Iron Works Historical Marker

Approx. 200 feet SW of this site, cast first gun for the Confederate Navy on 4 May 1861. The gun, a Dalhgren cannon, fired an 8~inch diameter explosive shell. (A historical marker located in Gretna in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.)

www.hmdb.org

Anyone have any additional information? My Google-fu is weak on this.

Thanks for the help,
USS ALASKA

Cool. So a Pennsylvania guy made it to New Orleans, I suspect. The real Phoenix Iron Works was near Philadelphia and was a very famous company. I believe there was no place in the Confederacy that had the steam operated equipment that could copy the modified Rodman methods that produced the 3 inch ordinance rifle.

 

[Dan Kohli]

Cool. So a Pennsylvania guy made it to New Orleans, I suspect. The real Phoenix Iron Works was near Philadelphia and was a very famous company. I believe there was no place in the Confederacy that had the steam operated equipment that could copy the modified Rodman methods that produced the 3 inch ordinance rifle.

The 3" ordinance rifle was made of forge welded wrot-iron. The Rodman method was probably used for the 4.5" siege rifle.