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In Reply to: Cannons for Cannons posted by big tee on January 25, 2023 at 16:36:47:
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In addition to owning a replica field piece and leading an artillery re-enacting company, I am the Co-Chief Inspector for Region XII, National Civil War Artillery Association. Among other things, we hold regional schools every other year to teach folks who are interested in blackpowder artillery something of its history as well safe and effective drills for firing them. We really don't want to hurt anyone on the field, and that "anyone" includes us!
It's a serious business, and we want folks to take it seriously. Artillery is a team sport, and our aim is to make sure that all the parts of the team work together.
On the side, the history of the guns, their types, their roles, and their peculiarities interest us--and me a great deal. One of my gun sergeants and school instructors collects, catalogs, and displays remainders of projectiles dug from places where the armies were. (He also displays and fires his beautiful bronze-tubed 12 lb Mountain Howitzer.)
Another colleague and former superior officer is literally the world's leading expert on a particular, obscure field piece--years of digging through archives and pestering folks for a fact here, a remnant over here, and a picture there. The result is that we now know a great deal about what was once a foot note with little bits scattered here and there (literally in the case of remaining tubes and carriage remnants). There now exist 95%+ accurate replicas of the Woodruff gun, 36 or so made in Quincy, IL, one battery of which was used in the famous Grierson Raid, a distraction that helped Grant get his armies across the Mississippi River to harass, encircle, and finally capture Vicksburg, a victory with greater implications for the war than that at Gettysburg that same week. (See John Wayne's Horse Soldiers for a dramatization of the raid.)
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