[mairdie]

Re: the Gods and General timeframe, my 2nd great uncle was in the first battle of Bull Run and I've got a Brady photo of him with the first cannon captured.

Gen Henry Seymour Lansing and his brother, my 2nd GGF, Gen Henry Livingston Lansing, both created the NY Military Association at the same time, rose thru the ranks around the same time and were always being confused. Who names TWO sons Henry??

[central_va]

You can tell a confederate cast 12# Napoleon gun by how the barrel is not flared at the end. Yankee guns had the flare, the CSA ones didn't.

Flare:

no flare