Posted on 06/16/2012 10:48:07 AM PDT by marktwain
I remember that exhibit when I got to visit Caslte Edinburgh in 1992.
I was at the Battle Of Secessionville reenactment today and there wasn’t much there except for this live fire I managed to get.
http://tysonneil.smugmug.com/History/Civil-War-Reenactment/19681765_XhKFfd#!i=1909475535&k=M4MTg9w
The cannon is almost to the point it is too expensive to operate (namely powder) according to one of the gun crewmen.
I did get a few short clips of some pre-load/load/afterwards that are in the shutterstock approval queue.
Here is a civil war oddball some of may have seen before called a Williams Cannon or Repeating Cannon that I got to see a while back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-3Fsjf1iwE
Rebel gunners were happy to hit a building with their cannon. Union gunners had rifled cannon, which could not only hit the barn, they could shoot out a particular window in the building.
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