32-Pounder Rifle of CSS Georgia
32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight, Banded and Rifled, on display at Old Fort Jackson near Savannah, Georgia.
A US Navy 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight which was banded and rifled by the Confederates is displayed outside Old Fort Jackson near Savannah, Georgia. The cannon likely was among the 1,000 guns captured by the Confederacy when Norfolk Navy Yard was taken in 1861.
Like the nearly identical 32-Pounders at Fort Fisher, it was rifled and banded in 1862. By 1863 the gun was part of the armament of the ironclad CSS Georgia. It was still aboard that vessel when she was scuttled in 1864. The gun was raised in 1984.
The cannon is mounted on a reproduction 4 truck naval carriage. It is displayed next to an iron 24-pounder howitzer also from CSS Georgia.
The banded and rifled 32-Pounder (and very often this specific model of 32-Pounder) was inferior to purpose manufactured rifles like the Brooke, and it was not as powerful as the 10-Inch Columbiad. However, it was a weapon available to larger numbers than either of the aforementioned guns, and it formed a significant part of Confederate coastal fortifications.
The 32-Pounder Rifle, the 24-Pounder howitzer, and a fragment of a 10-Inch Columbiad which burst in 1862.
