Artillery - North
Battery Kinzie
Type: Barbette Gun
Size: 2 – 12″ Diameter
Constructed: 1908-1910
Named after: Brig. General David H. Kinzie
Gun Weight: 268 tons
Shell Weight: 1070 pounds
Range: 9.9 miles
Rate of fire: 1 round per 45 seconds
Removed: 1944
Battery Tolles
Type: Barbette Gun
Size: 4 – 6″ Diameter
Constructed: 1903-1946 check
Named after: Brevet Colonel Cornelius Tolles, died from combat wounds in 1864.
Gun Weight: 22.5 tons
Shell Weight: 108 pounds
Range: 9.4 miles
Rate of fire: 5 rounds per minute
Removed: 1918/1945
Battery Walker
Type: Pedestal Mounted Guns
Size: 2 – 3″ Diameter
Constructed: 1904-1906
Named after: Capt Samuel Walker, a Texas Mounted Ranger killed in Mexico in 1846.
Walker is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Colt-Walker revolver.
Gun Weight: 4.5 tons
Shell Weight: 15 pounds
Range: 7 miles
Rate of fire: 12 rounds per minute
Removed: 1945
Battery Vicars
Type: Balanced Pillar Gun
Size: 2 – 5″ Diameter
Constructed: 1900
Named after: US Army Lt. Thomas A. Vicars, died fighting in Philippines in 1902
Gun Weight: 24 tons
Shell Weight: 58 pounds
Range: 5.9 miles
Rate of fire: 6 rounds per minute
Removed: 1918