[TXnMA]

Thanks for posting that!

Some of the guys who drive and narrate the horse-drawn carriage tours in Charleston do a good job of explaining those tie-bolts -- and the history associated with them.

I undertand those tie-bolts were helpful later, when the big Union "Swamp Angel" cannon was pounding Charleston from across the Ashley River arm of Charleston Harbor during the Civil War...

[TXnMA]

LOL! So much for the "lore of the Carriage Driver"! I just realized that the driver's tale about the Swamp Angel was bogus: the code didn't exist until well after the Civil War... '-)