Mystery cannons - Dec 2008 second two pair

[Cat Whisperer]

And the next pair, 150 miles East of the first pair.

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[Double D]

Ft. Gordon GA.

[Cat Whisperer]

Was that a guess or was there another clue?
(ke-rect!)

[Double D]

I'm a highly skilled analyst intel researcher, Retired.

[Double D]

Okay, Okay, I am an Honor Graduate of the Military Police Supervisors School that in the early 1970's was at Ft. Gordon.

[Cat Whisperer]

Golly-gee.
I was stationed there 73 and 74.
No more wooden buildings - they're all brick now.
Burning them would have accellerated global warming by 10 years.
Had friends there both in the medics and in the MP's (I was Signal).

[Double D]

Wooden Patton Buildings only...we were Marines on an Army base, don't think they would give us the good stuff do you.

[eod20]

the old patton buildings must have been like living at the plaza for a bunch of marines       they most likely put the Marines in the older patton building for fear you were not all house broken yet     hahahahahah       i was army    it is all meant to be fun    all service is honorable

[Cat Whisperer]

For my first year there my office was in Signal Towers and for the second year I too was in 'splinter city'.

Those buildings were intended for 3 year service life - could be built in a few days.  (There's even a TM on how to build them.)

I've seen and used many 4 decades after they were built.

The 'good' buildings then were the new classrooms and student barracks of the signal school.  The MP's came and went and did get some new buildings.

[Cannoneer]

Alright Cat, it would seem that everyone has had their fair share of time to come up with some answers about these guns and not been too successful; so how about giving us some noteworthy historical details? 
 

[Cat Whisperer]

Beats me.  I just took the pix because they were there!

[Cannoneer]

The first pair are both Model 1857 12-pdr light gun howitzers, more popularly known as federal Napoleons.

1. Foundry - Revere Copper Co. Boston, MA, Reg.# 143, Inspected by TJR (Thomas Jackson Rodman), Foundry# 145, Year 1862, Mtl. Bronze, Weight 1220 lbs.
2. Foundry - Revere Copper Co. Boston, MA, Reg.# 270, Inspected by TJR (Thomas Jackson Rodman), Foundry# 271, Year 1863, Mtl. Bronze, Weight 1241 lbs.

The second pair are both Confederate 12-pdr Napoleons.

1. Foundry - Leeds & Co. New Orleans, LA, Foundry# 46, Year 1862, Mtl. Bronze.
2. Foundry - Leeds & Co. New Orleans, LA, Foundry# 54, Year 1862, Mtl. Bronze.

All four guns are located by the Ft. Gordon Post Signal Museum located on Chamberlain Ave.

The two CSA Napoleons with that beautiful green patina are both from the famous Semple's Alabama Artillery Battery which took its popular name from Capt. Henry C. Semples. The battery was organized in Montgomery, Alabama in March of 1862. The other two CSA Napoleons that made up the armament of Semple's Battery are located on the Augusta State University campus. Bronze was a rare commodity in the South at this time, these four Napoleons all cast by Leeds & Co., were supposedly made with bronze that came from bells that were donated to the cause by Louisiana churches; Leeds & Co. made an even dozen 12-pounder Napoleons.

[Cat Whisperer]

It was Augusta College when I was there (at Ft. Gordon).  I'll have to mosey over there next time I'm by.

I remember someone mentioning something about Alabama back then - 1973-74.


THANKS!