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Designation: 12-pdr Gun - Napoleon
Model: 12-pdr Bronze Gun, Light M1857M2
Identification No: Revere 062: US


Designed by: US Army Ordnance Department
Built at: Revere Copper Co
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
construction no: 050
Year : 1862
Item Category: Artillery, Black Powder, Bronze

Memorial Information
Owner: US Government
Item: 2 cannon or fieldpieces with their carriages
Request doc.: 63rd Congress, Session III, SB 5495 by Sen Chamberlain, amended
Year: 1915
Delivery Doc: 63rd Congress, Session III, Chap 178, Act of Mar 4, 1915
Document instructions: amended by House Mil Affairs Cmte
Provider: Sec War
Use: either side of the Confederate monument
On loan to: Town of Buckingham
Reference: GPO-CRECB-1915-pt5-v52.pdf: doc pg 5192; pdf pg 854



Current Status: Static Display
Current Custodian: Town of Buckingham
Access: Free Outdoor
Location: Buckingham County Courthouse
13061 W James Anderson Hwy
Buckingham, Virginia, USA
Lat/Long37.550448-78.556270 Click here to see location in Google Maps

Reference Documents / websites:

The Big Guns, pg 317: D109, 56

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Last update to record: 2024-11-05

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