US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren in Coleman, Michigan
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 698 is displayed in Coleman, Michigan. Number 698 was manufactured at Fort Pitt Foundry in 1863. As manufactured it weighed 9,193 pounds. Number 698 was one of twenty 9-Inch Dahlgrens sent to the navy yard at Sackets Harbor, New York in the summer of 1864. It saw no service afloat and Bureau of Ordnance records state that it was sent to “Mr. John P. Lee, City of Midland, Michigan” on August 5th, 1909. Midland is twenty miles from where the gun is displayed in Coleman.
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren 703 at Vicksburg
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 703 was cast at Fort Pitt Foundry in 1863. It is currently displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park, but in 1864 it was one of twenty 9-Inch Dahlgrens sent to the Navy Yard at Sackets Harbor, New York. It weighs 9,265 pounds.
The 9-Inch Dahlgrens of Webster, New York
Two 9-Inch Dahlgren cannons are displayed at Webster Rural Cemetery in Webster, New York. These two Dahlgrens are displayed on concrete recreations of the wooden carriages that they would have had in service aboard US Navy warships during the American Civil War. Both cannons were originally part of a shipment sent to Sackets Harbor.
The 9-Inch Dahlgren of Sackets Harbor
A US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren is displayed alongside a 30-Pounder Parrott Rifle at Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site in Sackets Harbor, New York. Originally part of twenty such cannons sent to Sackets Harbor, the reason that these cannons were sent in 1864 remains a bit of a mystery. Sackets Harbor is a beautiful and historic site on Lake Ontario.