The Fragment of a US Navy 32-Pounder of 46 Hundredweight at Fort Branch

Part of the remarkable collection of artillery at Fort Branch on the Roanoke River is a fragment of a 32-Pounder. Olmstead et al. identifies it as the only surviving portion of the sixty-six 32-Pounders of 47 Hundredweight cast for the US Navy by Cyrus Alger in 1846. It served aboard the Frigate USS United States.