Foto Friday

[Kurt G]

Antietam......or Sharpsburg....2010

 

[JOHN42768]

A lot of nice photos. Thanks

 

[luinrina]

To start this off let's look at pictures you have of artillery pieces.

Andersonville,June 2018:

As my teacher would have said: Topic missed, failed, sit down.

It's nonetheless a great photo!

Antietam......or Sharpsburg....2010

Love the second shot, especially the front guy's (a Major?) expression!

 

[bdtex]

As my teacher would have said: Topic missed, failed, sit down.

It's nonetheless a great photo!

I can fix that. Andersonville,June 2018:

 

[ARW]

Great Fotos everybody. Keep them coming.......

 

[Boonslick]

Sesquicentennial of the First Battle of Boonville, June 11, 2011 #1

 

[Boonslick]

Sesquicentennial of the First Battle of Boonville, June 11, 2011 #2

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[James N.]

Andersonville,June 2018:

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That isn't a cannon!

Edit: I see that issue has already been addressed.

 

[James N.]

I have so many to pick from - I guess I might as well go with this really BIG 15" Rodman at Fort Foote, Maryland!

 

[ARW]

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I have so many to pick from - I guess I might as well go with this really BIG 15" Rodman at Fort Foote, Maryland!

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Somebody brought out the BIG GUNS.......

 

[Virginia Dave]

Lookout Mountain

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Beautiful view. I use to live on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga when I was going to school. Behind our house in the woods were old redoubt that my kids use to play around. I wish I had owned a metal detector back then.

 

[FarawayFriend]

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I have so many to pick from - I guess I might as well go with this really BIG 15" Rodman at Fort Foote, Maryland!

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As opposed to this small Gatling gun from Fort Laramie:

 

[James N.]

As opposed to this small Gatling gun from Fort Laramie:
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Delicate-looking as it is, you can easily see why Custer refused the offer of a couple of them on his last march to the Little Big Horn - they would've likely broken down somewhere on the rough route.

 

[Lubliner]

Okay, my submission is not a modern photo, not a photo at all, but my weird sense of humor got the best of me. It's easy to laugh 150+ years after the fact.

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Bull Run Quaker Gun

 

[Kurt G]

Sometimes the local guy helps out. Antietam.

 

[UCVRelics]

Firing my Lost Cause howitzer

 

[Gandycreek]

Mansfield, Ohio

 

[Tut11]

Naval cannon's of the CSS Arkansas. Along with the CSS Alabama all 1/96th scale models.

 

[Blockaderunner]

Whitworth rifle at Gettysburg

Wilderness

Guns on Maryes Heights

A couple of others just for a bit of variety. French Horse Artillery gun at the Wellington Headquarters Museum in Waterloo

and German 150mm gun at Passchendaele 1917 Museum.

 

[JanekTheScribe]

Monocacy, looking toward the Union lines.