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To: mairdie

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

22 posted on 08/03/2017 1:45:51 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)

To: central_va

Fascinating. Do you know why the differences and why each was considered superior to the other design? Never knew this.

23 posted on 08/03/2017 1:54:03 PM PDT by mairdie

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