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Above: Pile of
turned lathe guns, 1840-1860, for Fort Pillow, TN.
Below: Russian 3-pounder Unicorn, St. Petersburg, 1804, for
Sutter's Fort, CA. |
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Above: Confederate
6-pounder for city of Rome, GA
Below: 3.67" Parrott for the Paulson Brothers. |
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1841 Model
10-inch Seacoast Mortar from SBR |
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A model of 1841 10-inch Seacoast Mortar, recently completed by
South Bend Replicas, Inc. for the State of Georgia, will be on
permanent exhibit to the visiting public at Fort McAllister in
the near future. The mortar, with a muzzle diameter of
27.5 inches and trunnion diameter of nine inches, is reliably
presumed to the the type to have fired the opening shot of the
Civil War, against Fort Sumter. With no originals of the
piece remaining in existence, the reproduction was made from
archival dimensions supplied by historian Edwin Olmstead, of
Pennsylvania. |
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