US Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle of USS Mendota in Hartford City, Indiana
US Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle Number 260 which was carried aboard USS Mendota is displayed at Hartford City, Indiana. It was manufactured at the West Point Foundry in 1864. As manufactured it weighed 9,697 pounds. It is displayed in a cemetery on the east side of town in a section of graves of veterans of the Civil War.
Bureau of Ordnance Records show that it was carried aboard the Sassacus-class gunboat USS Mendota which served on the James River in 1864-1865.
US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Two US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed flanking a monument in Lawton Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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The two 32-Pounders are:
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 17 manufactured by Seyfert, McManus, and Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1865. Weight as manufactured was 4,620 pounds.
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 89 manufactured by Fort Pitt Foundry in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1865. Weight as manufactured was 4,520 pounds.
US Army 30-Pounder Parrott Rifle in Lafayette, Indiana
A US Army 30-Pounder Parrott Rifle, Number 180, is displayed in front of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette, Indiana. The Parrott is displayed on the southeast corner of the courthouse lawn mounted on an iron pedestal mounted on top of a stone base with the dates 1861-1865. An 8-Inch siege howitzer is displayed on the northwest corner of the courthouse. Both cannons were donated to the John A Logan, Post Number 3, of the Grand Army of the Republic on July 15th, 1897.
30-Pounder Parrott Number 180 was manufactured at the West Point Foundry in 1863. As manufactured it weighed 4,206 pounds - as seen on the muzzle.