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The M1857 12-pounder Napoleon or Light 12-pounder gun or 12-pounder gun-howitzer was a bronze smoothbore muzzle-loading artillery piece that was adopted by the United States Army in 1857 and extensively employed in the American Civil War.[1]

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  2. American Civil War artillery

American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Ames Manufacturing Company

Ames Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of swords, tools, and cutlery in Chicopee, Massachusetts, as well as an iron and bronze foundry. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and Ames Manufacturing Company are American Civil War artillery.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Army of Northern Virginia

The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

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Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.

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Army of the Ohio

The Army of the Ohio was the name of two Union armies in the American Civil War.

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Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac was the primary field army of the Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

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Arthur Lyon Fremantle

General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (11 November 1835 – 25 September 1901) was a British Army officer and a notable British witness to the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

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Atlanta campaign

The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.

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Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.

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Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.

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Battle of Fort Sanders

The Battle of Fort Sanders was the crucial engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863.

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Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Battle of Prairie Grove

The Battle of Prairie Grove was a battle of the American Civil War fought on December 7, 1862.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Canister shot

Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and Canister shot are American Civil War artillery.

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Canon obusier de 12

The Canon obusier de 12 (officially the "Canon obusier de campagne de 12 livres, modèle 1853"), also known as the "Canon de l’Empereur" ("emperor's cannon"), was a type of canon-obusier (literally "shell-gun cannon", "gun-howitzer") developed by France in 1853. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and canon obusier de 12 are American Civil War artillery.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Capture of New Orleans

The capture of New Orleans (April 25 – May 1, 1862) during the American Civil War was a turning point in the war that precipitated the capture of the Mississippi River.

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Cascabel (artillery)

A cascabel is a subassembly of a muzzle-loading cannon, a knob to which to attach arresting ropes to deal with the recoil of firing the cannon.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Chicopee, Massachusetts

Chicopee is a city located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Columbus, Georgia

Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Cyrus Alger

Cyrus Alger (11 November, 1782 – 4 February, 1856) was a United States arms manufacturer and inventor. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and Cyrus Alger are American Civil War artillery.

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Ducktown, Tennessee

Ducktown (translit) is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States.

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Eastern theater of the American Civil War

The eastern theater of the American Civil War consisted of the major military and naval operations in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the national capital in Washington, D.C., and the coastal fortifications and seaports of North Carolina.

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Elevation (ballistics)

In ballistics, the elevation is the angle between the horizontal plane and the axial direction of the barrel of a gun, mortar or heavy artillery.

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Field gun

A field gun is a field artillery piece.

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First Battle of Bull Run

The First Battle of Bull Run, called the Battle of First Manassas.

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First Battle of Memphis

The First Battle of Memphis was a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River immediately north of the city of Memphis, Tennessee on June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War.

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George B. McClellan

George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862.

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George D. Ramsay

George Douglas Ramsay (21 February 1802 – 23 May 1882) was a Brigadier General in the United States Army and served as the 6th Chief of Ordnance of the U.S. Army.

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Gettysburg National Military Park

The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought over three days between July 1 and July 3, 1863, during the American Civil War.

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Henry Northey Hooper

Henry Northey Hooper (1799 – 1865) was a 19th-century American manufacturer and merchant of decorative lighting, Civil War artillery, and bells and chimes.

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Howitzer

The howitzer is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.

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James Seddon

James Alexander Seddon (July 13, 1815 – August 19, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Representative in the United States Congress, as a member of the Democratic Party.

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Josiah Gorgas

Josiah Gorgas (July 1, 1818 – May 15, 1883) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and was later president of the University of Alabama.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kingdom of Saxony

The Kingdom of Saxony (Königreich Sachsen) was a German monarchy that existed in Central Europe between 1806 to 1918.

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M1841 12-pounder howitzer

The M1841 12-pounder field howitzer was a bronze smoothbore muzzle-loading artillery piece that was adopted by the United States Army in 1841 and employed during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and M1841 12-pounder howitzer are American Civil War artillery.

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M1841 6-pounder field gun

The M1841 6-pounder field gun was a bronze smoothbore muzzleloading cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1841 and used from the Mexican–American War to the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and M1841 6-pounder field gun are American Civil War artillery.

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Macon, Georgia

Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Major general

Major general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Muzzleloader

A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Parrott rifle

The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and Parrott rifle are American Civil War artillery.

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Petersburg National Battlefield

Petersburg National Battlefield is a National Park Service unit preserving sites related to the American Civil War Siege of Petersburg (1864–65).

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Phoenix Iron Works (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania)

The Phoenix Iron Works (1855: Phoenix Iron Company; 1949: Phoenix Iron & Steel Company; 1955: Phoenix Steel Corporation), located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was a manufacturer of iron and related products during the 19th century and early 20th century.

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Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Revere Copper Company

The Revere Copper Company is a copper rolling mill in the United States.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Round shot

A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Second French Empire

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics.

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Shell (projectile)

A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.

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Shrapnel shell

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually.

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Smoothbore

A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.

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Tredegar Iron Works

The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, was the biggest ironworks in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and a significant factor in the decision to make Richmond the Confederate capital.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Western theater of the American Civil War

The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.

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William Farquhar Barry

William Farquhar Barry (August 18, 1818 – July 18, 1879) was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as an artillery commander during the Mexican–American War and Civil War.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Wrought iron

Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%).

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10-pounder Parrott rifle

The 10-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a muzzle-loading rifled cannon made of cast iron that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and often used in field artillery units during the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and 10-pounder Parrott rifle are American Civil War artillery.

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14-pounder James rifle

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 States Army and the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and 14-pounder James rifle are American Civil War artillery.

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141st Field Artillery Regiment

The 141st Field Artillery Regiment (Washington Artillery) is a United States field artillery regiment.

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20-pounder Parrott rifle

The 20-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a cast iron muzzle-loading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and employed in field artillery units during the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and 20-pounder Parrott rifle are American Civil War artillery.

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2nd Connecticut Light Artillery Battery

The 2nd Connecticut Light Artillery Battery, was recruited from Connecticut and served in the Union Army between September 10, 1862 and August 9, 1865 during the American Civil War.

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3-inch ordnance rifle

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 in field artillery units during the American Civil War. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon and 3-inch ordnance rifle are American Civil War artillery.

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4th U.S. Artillery, Battery B

Battery "B", 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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5th Maine Light Artillery Battery

5th Maine Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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See also

American Civil War artillery

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1857_12-pounder_Napoleon

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