Over the holidays I visited my mother in Quincy, IL and for the first time visited the small (less than half an acre) national cemetery there. Although I grew up in Quincy, I never bothered to visit it. To my surprise I was greeted by 4 rather tall upright cannons. During the Civil War, Quincy (located on the Mississippi north of St. Louis) was the site of 5 military hospitals.
Quincy National Cemetery began in 1861 as a small soldiers' lot within a cemetery along the banks of the Mississippi River. At the turn of the 20th century, however, all of the burials were reinterred across town, in a new lot at which eventually became Quincy National Cemetery. The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 200 Civil War soldiers.
Can anyone identify the cannons for me? They are dated 1846 and 1848, are marked “JRA” over “TF” and probably stand about 9' tall.
