Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
1-30-2017
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Anyone who has visited a Civil War battlefield is familiar with the sight of artillery pieces dotting the landscape, marking the places where artillery units were positioned on the field. Gettysburg National Military Park has one of the largest and most diverse collections of these now silent sentinels, ranging from bronze Napoleons to breech-loading Whitworth rifled guns. One of the most common types of cannon found at Gettysburg is the 3-inch Ordnance rifle. The Ordnance rifle is interesting for a number of reasons, not least of which are its connections to Phoenix Iron Company of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
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Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Laurel J., "Cannons and Columns: The Phoenix Iron Company and the Civil War" (2017). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 198.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/198
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.