Pulaski, along with Parrott rifles. However, they were retired from front line service soon after, and the James projectiles were gradually replaced by Hotchkiss projectiles due to stripping of the lead sabot. The rapid reduction of Fort Pulaski was probably the James system's most significant contribution to the war. After the war, the event was used to justify stopping work on masonry forts and led to a brief period of new construction of earthwork forts. Large caliber smoothbore guns rifled with James system Surviving examples Over 150 14-pounder James rifles survive, many of them at Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, including over 50 6-pounder weapons bored out to 3.8 inches and rifled. Other heavy guns with James rifling survive as well. Several 14-pounder James rifles at the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia commemorate the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, which served in the First Battle of Bull Run as the First Rhode Island Battery with this type of weapon. An iron rifled 14-pounder artillery piece, used by James in experiments at Napatree Point in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, is in the collection of the Newport Artillery Company. See also Field artillery in the American Civil War Siege artillery in the American Civil War Contemporary rifled artillery Sawyer rifle Parrott rifle Brooke rifle Wiard rifle References Bibliography External links General Charles Tillinghast James at CivilWarArtillery.com Light James projectiles at CivilWarArtillery.com Heavy James projectiles at CivilWarArtillery.com Light Hotchkiss projectiles at CivilWarArtillery.com Heavy Hotchkiss projectiles at CivilWarArtillery.com Field artillery American Civil War artillery Coastal artillery History of Savannah, Georgia