** Several years ago, Frank Crawford gave a talk to the McHenry County Civil War Round Table about the Leeds cannon which is in the Boone County Museum of History in Belvidere, Illinois. It was shipped from Rock Island Arsenal to the museum.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend it and looked for information on it, but wasn't able to find it until recently.
The Leeds cannon was made in New Orleans for the Confederacy. The fact that New Orleans fell so soon in the war makes Leeds Confederate cannons very rare.
Leeds cannons were small bore field pieces.
--Old Secesh
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