Photo by John Frick, 2025

Designation: 6-pdr Gun M1841
Model: 6-pdr Field Gun M1841
Identification No: Alger 193: US


Designed by: US Army Ordnance Department
Built at: Alger, Cyrus and Company
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Year : 1861
Inspector: Thomas Jackson Rodman (TJR) 1859-64
foundry no.:798
weight: 872lbs
Item Category: Artillery, Black Powder, Bronze

Memorial Information
Owner: US Government
Item: 2 brass cannon
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: Elyria Camp Sons of Veterans



Current Status: Static Display
Access: Free Outdoor
Location: Ely Square Civil War Monument
Broad St at Court St
Elyria, Ohio, USA
Lat/Long41.3674611-82.1073333 Click here to see location in Google Maps

Reference Documents / websites:

The Big Guns, pg 293: D58, 09
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4MMT_Civil_War_Cannon_Elyria_Ohio

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Last update to record: 2025-12-28

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