Old artillery

[major bill]

What do we know of this.

 

[major bill]

 

[major bill]

May be CA or CAS.

 

[major bill]

Sorry my smart phone like to post images sideways.

 

[major bill]

Perhaps the other cannon on the court house lawn is easier to ID.

 

[James N.]

May be CA or CAS.
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Most likely the C. A. is for Cyrus Alger & Co., notable manufacturers of bronze Civil War ordnance like Napoleons, six pounders, etc.

 

[major bill]

I don't think the last one will confuse our artillery experts.

 

[James N.]

Perhaps the other cannon on the court house lawn is easier to ID.
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This Parrott was made as most of them were, by W.P.F. - the West Point Foundry, just across the Hudson River from the U. S. Military Academy. Often these are also marked R.P.P. for Robert Parker Parrott, their designer and also the superintendent of the W.P.F.; unfortunately, I don't know the identity of A. M. Presumably you already know that the weight of the tube is 9,702 pounds, that this one was the seventy-sixth of its type cast, and that it was made in 1864? I can't tell from the photograph what size this Parrott is (thirty pounder?), but presumably it has a 6.4" bore.

 

[major bill]

More markings on the last cannon.

 

[James N.]

More markings on the last cannon.
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Of course that's the Robert Parker Parrott mark on the trunion!

 

[major bill]

Well walking around the court house lawn beats shopping with my wife across the street for cloth. Even if the artillery is not rare, it beat cloth shopping hand down.

 

[James N.]

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I actually don't have any idea exactly what this one is! (Only that it appears to have been made by Cyrus Alger.)

 

[redbob]

#2 100# Parrott Gun (for Naval use) and #1 is a siege howitzer (either a 24 or 32#). It also appears to be mounted upside down. Similar weapon photo LoC

Well walking around the court house lawn beats shopping with my wife across the street for cloth. Even if the artillery is not rare, it beat cloth shopping hand down.

Been there, done that, got the tshirt, the best quilt store that my wife has ever forced me to visit was smack dab in the middle of the Franklin Battlefield.

 

[plymouthairrifle]

I like the officer with the sword sleeping on the job. What is the rifle that is hanging in the photo? Sharps rifle??

 

[UCVRelics]

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Sorry my smart phone like to post images sideways.

This one is the model 1861 8" siege howitzer. The model 1841 had a bell ring around the front of the tube.

model 1861

 

[redbob]

I like the officer with the sword sleeping on the job. What is the rifle that is hanging in the photo? Sharps rifle??

It certainly looks like it.

 

[JOHN42768]

Agree, looks like a Sharps

 

[major bill]

#2 100# Parrott Gun and #1 is a siege howitzer (either a 24 or 32#). It also appears to be mounted upside down. Similar weapon photo LoCView attachment 306805

Been there, done that, got the tshirt, the best quilt store that my wife has ever forced me to visit was smack dab in the middle of the Franklin Battlefield.

Yes as it had no vent I wondered if it was upside down.