Photo by DLBarker, 2025
| Designation: | 12-pdr Gun - Napoleon |
| Model: | 12-pdr Bronze Gun, Light, Confederate |
| Identification No: | none |
| Designed by: | US Army Ordnance Department |
| Built at: | Leeds and Co |
| New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | |
| Year : | 1862 |
| Item Category: | Artillery, Black Powder, Bronze |
| Memorial Information | |
| Owner: | US Government |
| Item: | 1 bronze or brass cannon or fieldpiece and outfit of cannon balls |
| Request doc.: | 64th Congress, Session I, SB 6625 by Sen Chamberlain |
| Year: | 1916 |
| Delivery Doc: | 64th Congress, Session I, Chap 466, Act of Sep 8, 1916 |
| Document instructions: | Provided further, That each and every article of codemned military equipment covered by this act shall be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War. |
| Provider: | Sec War |
| On loan to: | Bradley Post no 134 GAR |
| Reference: | GPO-CRECB-1916-pt11-v53.pdf: doc pg 11294; pdf pg 826 |
| Comments: | original Leeds foundry number 30 sold illegaliy. replaced by iron model. |
| Current Status: | Static Display | |
| Current Custodian: | Bradley Post no 134 GAR | |
| Access: | Free Outdoor | |
| Location: | Wood River Cemetery | |
| S Burwick Rd | ||
| Wood River, Nebraska, USA | ||
| Lat/Long | 40.822360-98.569788 | Click here to see location in Google Maps |
Reference Documents / websites: |
| The Big Guns, pg 321: D111, 50 |
| Click here to see our reference list |
Last update to record: 2025-10-09