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cannonmn
08-19-2010, 06:40 AM
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R. McAuley 3014V
08-24-2010, 05:44 PM
Andrew Jackson's batteries at New Orleans:


Battery 1, Captain Humphries, of the United States Artillery, consisted of two twelve-pounders and a howitzer, on field carriages, and was located thirty yards from the river, outside the levee.

Battery 2, ninety yards from Battery 1; Lieutenant Norris, of the navy; one twenty-four pounder.

Battery 3, twenty yards from Battery 2; Captains Dominique and Bluche, of the Baratarians; two twenty-four pounders.

Battery 4, twenty yards from Battery 3; Captain Crawly, of the navy; one thirty-two pounder, served by part of the crew of the Carolina.

Battery 5, Colonel Perrt and Lieutenant Carr, of the artillery; two six-pounders, one hundred and ninety yards from Battery 4.

Battery 6, thirty-six yards from Battery 5; Lieutenant Bertel; one brass twelve-pounder.

Battery 7, one hundred and ninety yards from Battery 6; Lieutenants Spotts and Chauveau; one eighteen- and one six-pounder.

Battery 8, sixty yards from Battery 7; one brass carronade, next Carroll’s and Adair’s commands.
The above quoted from Zachariah Frederick Smith (1904) The battle of New Orleans, pp70-71.
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Below are links to the two display guns, Nos. 81 and 83, guarding the entrance to the old Savannah Volunteer Guards Armory (erected 1892).

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=5770

http://www.savannahvolunteerguard.org/wwI.htm

Before the Savannah College of Art and Design acquired the armory, the Savannah Volunteer Guards leased portions of the building to the DAR and Daughters of the Confederacy, as well as the SCV and MOSB as many of the Guards membership (and/or their spouses) were also members of these other organizations. Among the artifacts formerly on display until 1978, had included the flag from Captain Raphael Semmes' flagship, the C.S.S. Alabama, and among its former curators (and commanding officers in WWII) were retired Lt. General Patrick Elihu Seawright (1896-1984) and Brigadier Paul Hamilton Googe (1896-1980), as well as Brigadier A. Lester Henderson (1896-1986)— three very good old friends who are greatly missed. Some N-SSA members may remember Lester’s nephew, Colonel Lindsay P. Henderson (1922-2001), formerly of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry and Third Georgia.

It was my understanding that these guns had originally come from old Fort Jackson, constructed in 1808 as part of the second series of coastal fortifications, and had re-used a portion of the six 24-pounders mounted at Fort Nathaniel Greene (built 1794-96) on Cockspur Island, near the mouth of the Savannah River, which was destroyed by a hurricane in September 1804. The site of Fort Greene, the southernmost fortification in the first series of federal works, was selected for the site of the construction of Fort Pulaski (1829).

Papers relating to Fort Greene, Cockspur Island, near Savannah:

The military stores ordered for the fortifications on the sea coast are intended for the cannon already at the respective stations. There is a list of officers at each post to whom the supplies are to be addressed. (6 August 1794)

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage ... olID=12426 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage.php?id=11329&docColID=12426)

(Chart) Return of the Cannon to be mounted in the fortifications on the seacoast of the respective states agreeably to law and the quantity of ammunition to be issued by the superintendent of military stores as a supply to each. Signed by Henry Knox, Secretary of War (25 July 1795)

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage ... olID=45982 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage.php?id=42859&docColID=45982)

McHenry provides a summary of force allocation for the seaboard of the United States. McHenry also makes the case for additional troops. (7 April 1798)

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage ... olID=28356 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage.php?id=25846&docColID=28356)

Account of military stores sent to Savannah for the use of the state of Georgia, April - July 1798 (27 February 1799)

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage ... olID=33573 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage.php?id=30609&docColID=33573)

Certification of payment; detachment of 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Green, Georgia under command of Lieutenant William F Deveaux. (8 June 1799)

http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage ... olID=35733 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/docimage.php?id=32648&docColID=35733)