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1 posted on 04/10/2006 12:53:38 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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Dixieping

12-pounder in Fredericksburg

2 posted on 04/10/2006 12:54:38 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

I want one!


3 posted on 04/10/2006 12:54:58 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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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.)
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To: stainlessbanner

Old Dominion bump


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....)
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To: stainlessbanner
Different kind of gun at the end of the conflict that changed the course of warfare forever.


6 posted on 04/10/2006 12:58:47 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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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?)
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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)
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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.)
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To: stainlessbanner

"The high-pitched "crack, crack" of Parrott rifles."

http://www.espd.com/oxhill/Artifacts/Shells/parrot.htm


18 posted on 04/10/2006 1:29:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: stainlessbanner
They may of been able to get one a bit cheaper at Dixie gun works.

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/advanced_search_result.php?osCsid=9a15c3fef1df4ffc7a0d8a911226e88c&osCsid=9a15c3fef1df4ffc7a0d8a911226e88c&keywords=cannon
19 posted on 04/10/2006 1:36:40 PM PDT by mouser (run the rats out its the only hope we have)
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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)
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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)
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To: stainlessbanner

there shoulda been a hundred Fredricksburgs....


30 posted on 04/10/2006 11:18:09 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Redlegs ping!


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....)
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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)
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"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!)
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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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