Civil War Battlefields - Petersburg

Richmond-Petersburg Campaign [June 15, 1864 - April 2, 1865]

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Everything below has been photographed, but still needs the web pages built!  A winter project for me, no doubt
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Another kind of rifling in this cannon.
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A smoothbore cannon.  No rifling, which made it less accurate, with a shorter range.  Rifling a cannon was new technology at the beginning of the Civil War.
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Another look at the smoothbore.
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Close up inside a smoothbore cannon tube.
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