To start this off let's look at pictures you have of artillery pieces.
As my teacher would have said: Topic missed, failed, sit down.Andersonville,June 2018:
Love the second shot, especially the front guy's (a Major?) expression!Antietam......or Sharpsburg....2010
That isn't a cannon!
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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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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.
As opposed to this small Gatling gun from Fort Laramie:View attachment 225995
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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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.As opposed to this small Gatling gun from Fort Laramie:
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Bull Run Quaker GunOkay, 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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