The 3-inch ordnance rifle, model 1861 was a wrought iron muzzleloading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and widely used...

The 14-pounder James rifle or James rifled 6-pounder or 3.8-inch James rifle was a bronze muzzle-loading rifled cannon that was employed by the United...

Compared to this, the bronze 12-pounder Napoleon cost $550 and the 3-inch Ordnance rifle cost $350 per gun. On 23 May 1861, the US government accepted the...

1855 model 3-inch cannon, 2012. 3-inch ordnance rifle (front view) 3-inch ordnance rifle (rear view) The Confederacy also developed a 2-inch bore five...

eliminated from the Army of the Potomac's inventory, preferring the 3-inch ordnance rifle. When the Parrott gun burst in battle, gunners would chip out the...

exclusively with the light 12-pounder smoothbore, the 3-inch Ordnance rifle, and the Parrott rifle. Each battery was organized so as to contain six identical...

12-inch columbiads using the Rodman method. The guns were made too late and were never finished or mounted. The 3-inch ordnance rifle and the 4.5-inch siege...

South Carolina (at the Charleston Rifle Club) and Bellevue, Ohio. Wiard-manufactured versions of the 3-inch Ordnance rifle are in Belchertown, Massachusetts...

of the Civil War-era 3-inch Ordnance rifle. It was constructed of steel and was of built-up construction with a central rifled tube, and reinforcing...

that rifled guns are much less effective against earthen field works. The 4.5-inch siege rifle looks like a larger version of the 3-inch ordnance rifle and...