What size cannonballs did they use in the Civil War?

Field artillery during the Civil War were referred to as 10 pounders, 12 pounders or inches such as the 3 inch ordnance rifle etc… Pounders simply referred to the weight of the projectile that the gun would fire. A 12 pounder Napoleon cannon shoots a 12 pound cannonball.

What were the common sizes of cannonballs?

“Borgard is credited with standardising on the cannonball weights of 4lb, 6lb, 9lb, 12lb, 18lb, 24lb, 32lb, and 42lb (where ‘lb’ denotes pounds 1lb = 0.45kg). [See table below.]”

What caliber are cannonballs?

Cannon Range Tables

Descriptions of solid shot for smoothbore guns
Caliber designation	Bore Diameter in inches	Diameter of shot in inches
9-inch	9.0	8.87
10-inch	10.0	9.87
11-inch	11.0	10.87

How big is a 32 pound cannon ball?

Early American 32-pounders had a bore measuring 6.5 inches in diameter.

What is the diameter of a 24 pound cannon ball?

21 inches
Each is named for the weight of the cannonball that it fired. A 24-pounder had a diameter of 21 inches, the 18–pounder had a diameter of 19.5 inches and the 12-pounder had a diameter of 18 inches. Bore is the drilled out part of the gun where the cannonball travels through.

How heavy is a 6-pounder cannon?

approximately 6 pounds
6-pounder gun or 6-pdr, usually denotes a 57-millimetre (2.2 in) gun firing a projectile weighing approximately 6 pounds (2.7 kg).

What was the largest cannonball?

Schwerer Gustav was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat and, in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built….

Schwerer Gustav
Specifications
Mass	1,350 tonnes (1,490 short tons; 1,330 long tons)
Length	47.3 metres (155 ft 2 in)
Barrel length	32.5 metres (106 ft 8 in) L/40,6