Rifled Field Artillery

3-inch Ordnance Rifle

Manufacturing Techniques

Introduction to the 3-inch Ordnance Rifles

Early production from Phoenix Iron Company

Middle production batches from Phoenix Iron Company

Later production batches from Phoenix Iron Company

An “interesting” 3-inch Ordnance Rifle at Fort Clinch, Florida

Replica 3-inch Ordnance Rifles at Gettysburg

Parrott Rifles

(Larger Parrotts covered under Heavy Guns heading)

The Parrott Patent (and an alternative interpretation)

Comparison of 2.9- and 3-inch Rifles

Confederate 10-pdr/2.9-inch and 3-inch Parrott Rifles

Comparison of Federal and Confederate Parrotts – the bands

Reproduction 10-pdr Parrotts at Gettysburg

10-pdr Parrott Rifles at Antietam

3.3-inch Parrott Rifles

20-pdr or 3.67-inch Army Parrott Rifles

James Rifles

Overview of James Rifles

“True” James Rifles, 3.80-inch or 14-pdr, bronze, cast to the Model 1841 Field Gun pattern, produced by at least four foundries.

“True” James Rifles, 3.80-inch or 14-pdr, bronze, cast to the Model 1861 Ordnance Department form.

“True” James Rifles, 3.80-inch or 14-pdr, iron/steel, cast generally like the Model 1861.

Rifled 6-pdr Field Guns and similar types which, incorrectly or not, have been grouped with the James Rifles.

Rifled Napoleons

Others

3-inch bronze rifles from Tredegar

3-inch iron rifles from Tredegar – early (muzzle swell) and late (straight muzzle)

Noble Brothers 3-inch rifle, early (muzzle swell) models

Austrian 3.75-inch Bronze Rifles (Sold to, but likely not used by, the Confederates)