Cannons: An Introduction to Civil War Artillery |
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12-pounder field 12-pounder Napoleons 2.75-inch Whitworth 20-pounder Parrott shell 3-inch Hotchkiss 3-inch Ordnance Rifle 6-POUNDER FIELD GUN 9 lbs American Civil War ammunition Artillery Projectiles attached barbette carriages battery bolt Bore Diameter Tube Bormann time fuse breech Breneman Bronze bucket bursting charge caisson canister cannon barrels cascable Civil Coehorn mortar Columbiad cylinder dead-head Diameter Tube Material Elevation field artillery fired Frankford Arsenal friction primer fuse Weight Gettysburg Gregory gunner howitzer Iron Iron lanyard Length of Tube Library of Congress limber loaded metallic fuse plugs Model Morris Island mould and flask mounted National Archives Number paper time fuse Parrott field rifle Parrott rifles percussion cap piece pounder Powder Charge Range projectiles Richmond Rodman sabot Schenkl shell Weight Siege and Garrison smoothbore spherical shot sponge trunnion Tube Material Length Union Army vent Watervliet Arsenal weapons Weight 17 lbs Weight Diameter Weight of Tube West Point Foundry Wooden fuse plug wrought iron yards