CivilWarTalk Throwback Thursday, 12-15-16

James N.

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In this photo I'm at right acting as No. 4 on the gun crew in the position of Ready preparing to pull the lanyard and fire the mountain howitzer during gun drill at a winter encampment in 1978 at a farm somewhere northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For a complete description of Civil War-era artillery drill, please see: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/how-to-fire-a-civil-war-cannon.129546/
 
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