Located in Memphis, Tennessee, the foundry of Street, Hungerford & Company, operated by Anthony S. Street and Fayette H. Hungerford, employed nearly 100 hands in the production of wagons, railroad cars, plows, and iron castings. Sensing the oncoming war, Street and Hungerford converted their business to cannon and munitions production.  Prior to the war, the foundry produced a wide variety of ordinance.  After the firing on Fort Sumter, activities were enlarged to include the casting of 6-pound cannon.  Street, Hungerford & Company's cannon casting later grew to include Hughes' guns (a small breechloader firing a one-pound ball six to eight times a minute), Parrott guns, and a few heavy guns.  The quality of some of Street, Hungerford & Company's earlier guns was so poor as to invoke the scorn of experts.

The firm's prior production of a variety of wood products made for an easy transition to the manufacture of gun carriages.  The firm produced a large number of such carriages, some of which were made for the guns cast at the nearby Quinby & Robinson plant.

There are no known surviving cannon.
 

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Last update:  April 17, 2000