Foto Friday 9-6

[jcrook]

How about some BIG cannons, like these at Forts Washington and Foote, part of the chain of Washington, D.C. defenses?
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Display of guns at Fort Washington on the Potomac River.

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Fort Foote's 15" Rodmans were installed in 1864 and were presumably considered too heavy to move again, so are still there!
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Fort Stevens in DC

 

[jcrook]

Fort Fisher NC

 

[DixieRifles]

Raymond Battlefield - they actually have on display the exact number of cannon that were engaged in the battle

Raymond Mississippi ??

 

[7thWisconsin]

Awesome pictures! I loved cannon when I was a kid, so much so that I wanted to be branched field artillery when I was commissioned. Just a note though - it has 2 "n's." There's only 1 with 1 n. 66 books in it.

 

[James N.]

Fort Stevens in DC

Went there on the same trip too: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-civil-war-defenses-of-washington-d-c.103889/

 

[James N.]

Raymond Mississippi ??

The same.

 

[DixieRifles]

CWT invades Chickamauga. October 2018.

Speaking of Chickamauga and Artillery, I was sure I had heard there was an really great artillery museum at Chickamauga or just outside the Park. They claimed it had examples of every artillery cannon you wanted to see. But I can't find it.
Is there such as museum there? Or in the Chattanooga vicinity?

Or could they have been simply referring to the selection of cannon distributed throughout the NPS Park?

 

[DixieRifles]

Columbiad at Columbus, KY (across the river from Belmont, MO) and a photo of the impressive earthworks.
This was dug out of 30-feet of mud some 20-30 years ago.

Center of Okolona, Mississippi.
I was actually more impressed to discover a "Roundabout" in Mississippi.

An imitation Fort Curtis in Helena, AR. Possibly a fake cannon, too.

Vicksburg 1986. I started my historical tours very early for my two daughters.

 

[Seduzal]

Speaking of Chickamauga and Artillery, I was sure I had heard there was an really great artillery museum at Chickamauga or just outside the Park. They claimed it had examples of every artillery cannon you wanted to see. But I can't find it.
Is there such as museum there? Or in the Chattanooga vicinity?

Or could they have been simply referring to the selection of cannon distributed throughout the NPS Park?

Not sure about cannons! But in side of the Visitors Center they have a very excellent display of muskets that was used on the Battlefield!

 

[DixieRifles]

Not sure about cannons! But in side of the Visitors Center they have a very excellent display of muskets that was used on the Battlefield!

Yes. That was the only collection I could find. I plan on visiting there next Friday.

 

[CWH1234]

That 15' Cannon is huge, almost just alike the ones in Fort Macon, NC but abit smaller.