The largest number of identical Confederate Napoleons were those made of iron. During 1864 the Tredegar Iron Works produced 105, with another 20 early in 1865. Tredegar Iron Napoleons were reinforced by a breech band, presumably of wrough iron. These tubes look like a parrott rifle on…
Noble Brothers and Company of Rome, Georgia, produced at least twenty-two 6-pounders guns, fifteen of cast iron and seven of bronze. There is also evidence because of surviving pieces that Noble Bros. using the same pattern produced 3-inch rifles in cast iron. One distinguishing characteristic of Noble…
The 4.2-inch (30-pounder), like the 10′s and 20′s, came in two models for the Army, differing primarily in the muzzle swell and a doorknob-shaped cascabel for the old model compared to a straight muzzle with more elongated cascabel-bored horizontally for elevating mechanism for the new. Parrotts was…
Companion weapons to Civil War guns were Howitzers-smoothbore cannon. As a rule, they are designed to throw large projectiles with comparatively light charges of powder concentrated at the bottom of the tube by means of a chamber. They were lighter than guns of the same caliber and…
The largest gun in the family of cannon design known as the Model of 1841 is the 12-pounder gun. This behemoth cannon was replaced in 1857 by the Napoleon because of its weight. We offer this gun in naval gun bronze with a steel sleeve or in…