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From the Washington Post, June 16, 2021: "Civil War cannons that may have been at Battle of Bull Run get new home. The guns sat outside the old Fairfax County Courthouse...The bronze guns had been given to Army Capt. A. Van Horn Ellis, of Company I, and with a battle brewing outside Manassas, Va., he and his men had to get them from the Washington Navy Yard to the battlefield 30 miles away. They were elegant Navy artillery pieces, with an anchor insignia likely stamped on the barrel. But they weighed 1,200 pounds each, had three wheels and were not designed to be pulled by horses.
So over several days in the oppressive summer heat of 1861, the men of the 71st New York State Militia dragged them by hand across the rugged Virginia countryside to the Battle of Bull Run on July 21. There, in the chaos of the Civil War’s first major battle, the guns were lost to the enemy."
See the full article with a picture of the guns here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/16/civil-war-cannons-bull-run/
So over several days in the oppressive summer heat of 1861, the men of the 71st New York State Militia dragged them by hand across the rugged Virginia countryside to the Battle of Bull Run on July 21. There, in the chaos of the Civil War’s first major battle, the guns were lost to the enemy."
See the full article with a picture of the guns here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/16/civil-war-cannons-bull-run/