XI-Inch Dahlgren at Lake Bluff Park in St. Joseph, Michigan
A beautifully preserved 11-Inch Dahlgren is on display at Lake Bluff Park in St. Joseph, Michigan. (Photos in this post are the work of Chris Light as uploaded to Wikimedia and are used in accordance with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike International License 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Mystery Brooke at The Citadel
This Brooke Rifle sits tucked between bushes on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, SC. Though it is unlabeled and often is passed unnoticed, it has an interesting history.
The 11-Inch Dahlgren of USS Keokuk
The surviving 11-Inch Dahlgren from USS Keokuk is on display at White Point Gardens in Charleston, SC
12-Pounder Napoleons in Augusta, Georgia
Three 12-Pounder Napoleons are preserved in Augusta, Georgia: two at Augusta University and one in the Augusta Museum
USS Santee - A Frigate of the United States Navy
USS Santee - designed after the War of 1812, built slowly in the 1820s-1850s, seeing active service at the beginning of the American Civil War, and serving many years as a school ship for the United States Naval Academy, was a beautiful frigate whose history reflects the changing technology of naval ordnance. This website is named in her honor.
7-Inch Brooke Rifle at Fort Morgan
This is a placeholder page. A 7-Inch Double Banded Brooke Rifle is displayed at Fort Morgan near Mobile, Alabama.
Cannon Row at Vicksburg
Placeholder post for Cannon Row at Vicksburg. Photos taken by the author in the mid-1990s.
Brookes at the National Civil War Naval Museum
Placeholder page showing the two Brooke smoothbores and two 7-Inch Brooke Rifles preserved at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. Photographs were taken by the author in the late 1990s.
6.4-Inch Brooke Rifle in Richmond, Virginia
A 6.4-Inch Brooke Rifle is displayed at The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia