To: righthand man; TexConfederate1861; chesley; rustbucket; JamesP81; LeoWindhorse; groanup; NerdDad; ..
Dixieping
12-pounder in Fredericksburg
To: stainlessbanner
To: stainlessbanner
That's a beautiful picture.
4 posted on
04/10/2006 12:56:22 PM PDT by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: stainlessbanner
5 posted on
04/10/2006 12:58:35 PM PDT by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero » with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: stainlessbanner
Different kind of gun at the end of the conflict that changed the course of warfare forever.
![](http://www.royalarmouries.org/webassets/G/Gatlin%20Gun(GB)_658_14.jpg)
6 posted on
04/10/2006 12:58:47 PM PDT by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: stainlessbanner
geez, and we can't even fire a pellet gun in Fulton County!
11 posted on
04/10/2006 1:02:21 PM PDT by
peacebaby
(ya'll come on down now, ya hear?)
To: stainlessbanner
it fired 12-pound cannon balls that would bounce And roll. Many feet were lost to these rolling cannonballs since they seem to be moving slow enough to stop by putting the leg down in front. Surprise!
13 posted on
04/10/2006 1:04:26 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: stainlessbanner
17 posted on
04/10/2006 1:17:49 PM PDT by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: stainlessbanner
18 posted on
04/10/2006 1:29:46 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: stainlessbanner
19 posted on
04/10/2006 1:36:40 PM PDT by
mouser
(run the rats out its the only hope we have)
To: stainlessbanner
23 posted on
04/10/2006 2:14:07 PM PDT by
reagan_fanatic
(Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car)
To: stainlessbanner
I have always wanted to be up close when one of them went off.
29 posted on
04/10/2006 10:32:48 PM PDT by
smug
(Tanstaafl)
To: stainlessbanner
there shoulda been a hundred Fredricksburgs....
To: Cannoneer No. 4
32 posted on
04/11/2006 9:53:41 AM PDT by
archy
(I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
To: stainlessbanner
i wish our lads in 1861 had had MORE of those!
free dixie,sw
37 posted on
04/11/2006 2:53:49 PM PDT by
stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: stainlessbanner
"A little more grape, Captain Bragg!"
38 posted on
04/11/2006 5:53:12 PM PDT by
Redleg Duke
(Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
To: stainlessbanner
"Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl!"
39 posted on
04/11/2006 5:53:44 PM PDT by
Redleg Duke
(Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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