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Ketchum’s patent hand grenades
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These hand grenades were designed and patented by
William F. Ketchum of Buffalo, New York. They were
designed to be thrown like a dart, and upon impact,
an internal plunger would strike a percussion cap
that would ignite the powder. Made as one-, three-,
and five-pounder grenades, they were used by both
the federal army and navy. Ketchum grenades have
been recovered at Petersburg, Port Hudson, Vicksburg,
and in the USS Cairo, the Union gunboat that
was sunk in the Yazoo River in Mississippi. |
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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
Behring Center
Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson Collection
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