Blown cannon barrel

[2ndDEboy]

Cemetery hill just 100 yards north of Bryan house anyone ever notice this cannon barrel? Wonder if it's from the battle or a mock up from surplus

 

[Ed Zeppelin]

Cool pics.
When I was a kid I used to have a gopher snake. That cannon looks like my snake after tossing in a mouse.


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[Gandycreek]

Burst Cannon at Zieglers Grove , Gettysburg | Cannons / Artillery & Crew Served Weapons

Was at Gettysburg Oct.31 thru Nov. 2nd and noticed this cannon at Zieglers Grove. Anyone know the story on this burst tube ? By the way, had fantastic weather there the whole time and very few people.

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[redbob]

The tube is real, I've never seen a reproduction with tube markings like that.

 

[Story]

I'm giggling with the notion of what this might have become if it succumbed to desperate times.

A smoothbore (think shotgun) with a bulged barrel due to an obstruction would/can be cut down to the nearest usable point breach-end of the damage.

So in this case, that'd result in a 12lb Napoleon field mortar. Bloop!

(And yeah, the Rebs would have just sent such back to be melted and recast but still...)

 

[Bruce Kindig]

Cemetery hill just 100 yards north of Bryan house anyone ever notice this cannon barrel? Wonder if it's from the battle or a mock up from surplus

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Cannons at the National Parks or any cemetery or monument were not necessarily there at the battle. U.S. Congress passed donation laws between 1869 and 1903. These laws specified some cannons (some number ranging from 1 to hundreds) to be sent to some place (like Gettysburg Battlefield). Eleven different arsenals held obsolete cannons in their gun yards and then responded to the Congressional order. I will be giving a presentation on this topic on Dec. 13, 2023 on CivilWarTalk. Watch for the sign up. Bruce Kindig

 

[mwalker6043]

I believe there only 2 cannon/ tubes that are documented to have been at the battle. 1 is on the General Buford monument #233 from Calef's Battery and 1 in the Lomas Center museum from Reynolds' NY Battery L. Captured at Gettysburg and retaken during the overland campaign in 1864.

As far as real cannon tubes vs reproductions, look at the muzzle or the trunnion depending on the MFG. Real ones will have stamped markings on them. The reproductions don't.

 

[Ed Zeppelin]

I'd like to have one of those in my front yard.
(And a second one on my Jeep to help clear traffic.)



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