_National Park Service Interpretive Series
History No. 3_
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
_WASHINGTON: 1949_
(Reprint 1956)
Many of the types of cannon described in this booklet may be seen in
areas of the National Park System throughout the country. Some parks
with especially fine collections are:
CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS NATIONAL MONUMENT, seventeenth and eighteenth
century field and garrison guns.
CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field
and siege guns.
COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, seventeenth and eighteenth century
field and siege guns, eighteenth century naval guns.
FORT MCHENRY NATIONAL MONUMENT AND HISTORIC SHRINE, early nineteenth
century field guns and Civil War garrison guns.
FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, Civil War garrison guns.
GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field guns.
PETERSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field and siege guns.
SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field guns.
VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field and siege guns.
The National Park System is dedicated to conserving the scenic,
scientific, and historic heritage of the United States for the
benefit and enjoyment of its people.