862fn: Guns Bearing on Charleston Harbor 22 September 1862

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                Guns Bearing on Charleston Harbor 
                        22 September 1862 


Fort Sumter
     3 - 10" Columbiad
    12 -  8" Columbiad
     2 -  8" Navy gun
     5 -  8" Sea Coast Howitzer
     3 -  9" Dahlgren 
     7 -  42pdr
     6 -  42pdr rifled
    31 -  32pdr
     4 -  32pdr rifled
     6 -  24pdr
     4 -  10" mortar

Fort Beauaregard:
     1 -  8" Columbiad
     1 -  8" Sea Coast Howitzer
     1 -  32pdr
     1 -  32pdr rifled
     2 -  24pdr

Fort Moultrie:                           
     9 -  8" Columbiad
     3 -  8" Sea Coast Howitzer
     1 -  42pdr rifled
     6 -  32pdr
     4 -  32pdr rifled
    11 -  24pdr
     3 -  24pdr howitzer
     1 -   6pdr

Enfilade Battery:
     3 - 10" Columbiad

Castle Pinckney:
     9 -  24pdr
     1 -  24pdr rifled

Battery on Morris Island and Floating Battery:
     4 - 8" naval shell gun
     2 - 32pdr rifled
     3 - 32pdr
     1 - 24pdr rifled

Fort Johnson:
     1 - 8" Columbaid
     2 - 32pdr
     1 - 32pdr rifled

Battery at Lawton's
     4 - 32pdr
     1 -  6pdr rifled

Breach Inlet Battery:
     1 - 8" sea coast howitzer
     2 - 32pdr
     1 - 24pdr
     3 - 12pdr
     1 - 12pdr rifled

Fort Lamar, Seccessionville:
     2 -  8" Columbaid
     6 - 32pdr
     1 - 32pdr rifled
     1 - 18pdr
     1 - 10" mortar
     1 -  6" mortar
     2 - 24pdr rifled

East Lines, James Island:
     1 -  8" howitzer
     4 - 42pdr
    14 - 32pdr
     1 - 24pdr 
     2 - 18pdr
     1 - 18pdr rifled 

West Lines, James Island
     1 -  8" Sea coast howitzer
     2 - 42pdr 
     4 - 32pdr
     4 - 24pdr
     3 - 12pdr 
     2 - 12pdr rifled 

Fort  Pemberton:
     2 - 10" Columbiad
     2 -  8" Columbiad
     2 - 42pdr
     4 - 32pdr
     2 - 32pdr rifled
     4 - 24pdr rifled
     2 - 18pdr
     1 - 12pdr
     1 - 12pdr rifled
     1 - 32pdr howitzer




U.S.  War Department,  The War of the Rebellion, 
A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and 
Confederate Armies,  Government Printing Office; 
Washington, D.C., 1882

Source: George Nafziger Order of Battle Collection