On Tuesday, I wrote about Kevin and Bill Farrell trying to raise money to preserve a 13-inch Union "Dictator" mortar located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in New York City.
The article made it sound like this cannon was a "forgotten" piece of ordnance. I did some more research on it and saw a photo of it.
The Civil War Re-Enactors Forum says that the brothers have a letter from 1948 saying that the mortar was donated to New York University on March 25, 1925, and that the mortar had been on the USS Albany. A number engraved on the barrel shows it to have been made at Fort Pitt Foundry, which was known to have made 13-inch mortars.
There are also two Krupp cannons at the school. Krupp made cannons for Germany, so were probably captured during World War I
Bronx Community College was established in 1957, on the grounds of what had been New York University.
--Old Secesh
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