Diary and Letters of Captain Greenlee Davidson, CSA 1851-1863 by Charles W. Turner describes 6-pounders in Davidson's Letcher (Virginia) Artillery prior to 1863. It is stated that the capture of ordnance at Harper's Ferry and (first) Fredericksburg led to replacement of the light smoothbore 6-pounders in Capt. Davidson's battery with 12-pounder Napoleons. Two of these 6-pounders were said to have been cast in March 1862 at the Tredegar Works in Richmond, using metal obtained from six large French guns belonging to the Virginia armory. Two of the surplus 6-pounders were presented by officers of the Letcher Artillery to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) on 1 January 1863, according to a 11 November 1863 article in the Lexington Gazette, which describes their receipt by VMI.