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Below is a list of cannons that I don’t think I’m likely to be able to visit in the near future. If you have photos of them (or live close by and can take photos), I’d be delighted to share them on this site.

  1. The 15-Inch Dahlgrens preserved as a monument to John Ericsson in Filipstad, Sweden

  2. The cannons at West Point - particularly the 8-Inch Armstrong captured at Fort Fisher and the 7-Inch Single Banded Brooke Rifle.

  3. The 9-inch Dahlgrens of Northern Michigan

    One from USS Hartford in Petosky, MI: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=97915

    Three in Mackinaw City: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=138764

    Another in Gaylord, MI

  4. The 11-inch Dahlgrens of USS Kearsarge currently stored by Naval History and Heritage Command in Richmond, VA

    https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2018/11/another-day-another-dahlgren/

  5. The Hong Kong 15-Inch Dahlgren

    https://www.santee1821.net/preserved-artillery/xv-inch-dahlgren-in-hong-kong

  6. 20-Inch Rodmans (Sandy Hook, NJ and Brooklyn, NY)

    https://www.nps.gov/places/000/20-inch-rodman-gun.htm

    https://civilwartalk.com/threads/pictures-of-the-rodman-20-inch-guns-today.195046/

  7. The Naval Guns at Vicksburg and the Guns of USS Cairo

    https://www.nps.gov/vick/index.htm

  8. The two 11-Inch Dahlgrens converted to 8-Inch Rifles displayed at the University of Maine. (And two 24-Pounders from Constitution nearby): https://maps.app.goo.gl/QL8X2ZCCR6EPTRW69

  9. The 9-Inch Dahlgrens and 6.4-Inch Brookes from CSS Georgia under conservation at Texas A&M.

  10. The 11-Inch Dahlgren in the cemetery of Bangor, Michigan. https://wwmt.com/news/local/bangor-michigan-civil-war-era-cannon-restoration-project-cemetery-community-history-civil-war-h-w-company-grand-army-republic-lincoln-1864-1897-van-buren-county-state

  11. The two 6.4-Inch Brooke Rifles of CSS Albemarle and CSS Tennessee displayed in front of the headquarters of US Fleet Forces Command at the Norfolk Navy Yard.