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The 20-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a cast iron muzzle-loading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and employed in field artillery units during the American Civil War.
Note: The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Regiments Indiana Volunteer Infantry were units that served in the Mexican–American War.. Indiana State Monument, Antietam National Battlefield, commemorating the 7th, 14th, 19th and 27th Infantry and 3rd Cavalry (East Wing)
He worked as a consultant for several documentaries and films on the Civil War, including the 1993 movie, Gettysburg, in which he also appeared on screen as an artillery commander, [3] and the former History Channel series, Civil War Journal. Smithgall collected antique cannons, and owned approximately 40 cannons as of 2009. During an on-air ...
Siege artillery fired the same ammunition as field artillery with the addition of grapeshot, which by 1861 had been abandoned by field pieces. Coastal artillery was meant to be used from fixed positions and, as weight was not an issue, included some of the largest pieces of the war. Coastal artillery could also fire heated shot. [29] [30]
Stevens Run [25] (Stevens Creek, [26] Tiber) is a 2.2-mile-long (3.5 km) [3] [verification needed] stream which is a tributary of Rock Creek flowing over the Gettysburg Battlefield and through the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Within the borough the stream is in a concrete channel, including a covered portion.
Oscar the cat has roamed McCordsville's Town Hall for 16 years and is the town's official mascot. He's facing some health problems, though.
General Morgan and his 2,460 handpicked Confederate cavalrymen, along with four artillery pieces, [1] departed from Sparta, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863.The expedition intended to divert the attention of the Union Army of the Ohio from Confederate forces in the state and possibly stir up pro-Confederate sentiments in the North.
As of 2008, the National Park Service unit managed 1,320 monuments and markers, 410 cannons, 148 historic buildings, and 41 miles (66 km) of roads (8 miles of them, unpaved). [2] The largest concentration of monuments is at the Gettysburg National Cemetery , where President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address .