- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
"The Dictator" or "The Petersburg Express' The nicknames for a famous 13-inch, 8.5-ton mortar used by the Union army during its long siege of Petersburg, Virginia in 1864-1865. The Dictator fired 200-pound missiles from a railroad flatcar and a wooden ground platform. The siege ended in the tenth month on April 2, 1865.
From The Language of the Civil War by John D, Wright page 88.
From The Language of the Civil War by John D, Wright page 88.