Columbiads

Overview of the Columbiad – short history of the type

Columbiad carriage  and elevating mechanism

8-inch Seacoast Howitzers

Overview

Projectiles and Peformance

Model 1840 (or 1841)

8-inch Columbiads

8-inch Model 1844 and a Walk-around

8-inch “New Columbiads” or Model 1857

10-inch Columbiads

10-inch Model 1844

Confederate Columbiads

Confederate 8-inch “New Columbiads” and “Revised Models” resembling Rodman Guns.

Confederate 10-inch Columbiads

Compared to Rodman Guns

Traced by invoices: Tredegar and Bellona.

10-inch Columbiads recovered in South Carolina

Confederate Rifled Columbiads

Tredegar’s hollow-core guns – cast late in the war