Courtesy Google Earth - Street View, 2015

Designation: 12-pdr Gun - Napoleon
Model: 12-pdr Bronze Gun, Light, Confederate
Identification No: Columbus 03: CS


Designed by: US Army Ordnance Department
Built at: Confederate States Arsenal, Columbus
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Year : 1863
Built as: Confederate Type 5
Item Category: Artillery, Black Powder, Bronze

Memorial Information
Owner: US Government
Item: 4 cannon, 16 shot
Request doc.: 42nd Congress, Session II, HR 2700
Year: 1872
Delivery Doc: 42nd Congress, Session II, Chap 360, Act of June 8, 1872
Provider: Sec War
Use: ornamenting burial-grounds of deseased soldiers
On loan to: Soldiers Monument Association
Reference: The Congressional Globe



Current Status: Static Display
Current Custodian: Soldiers Monument Association
Access: Free Outdoor
Location: Union Green Civil War Monument
Pleasant St at Main St
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Lat/Long41.5565917-72.6479889 Click here to see location in Google Maps

Reference Documents / websites:

The Big Guns, pg 321: D111, 13
Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War, pg 104

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Last update to record: 2024-11-05

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