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I know you guys like pictures, old things and machinery so...

Variety of different shells. The fort in Savannah was (going from memory) a hex shaped fort with brick walls 8 feet thick. It's first battle the enemy used an advanced armor piercing shell, that blew 2-4 foot deep chunks out of the wall. The shells hadn't been invented when they started building the fort.

Copper powder measure, each one with the measure on the handle

Not the greatest picture, but you can see the pikes in the corner. When war broke out the governor ordered thousands to be made, until someone pointed out how impractical they were

Not pictured- they had small cannons as well, mounted on a pole, that could swivel and pivot. One soldier could operate it effectively while still standing behind a wall
 
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Wheeled wage payment cart, the cart was wheeled from one area of the mill to the next on payday

Mill coins, to let you shop at the company store

Leg irons (not a great thing but anyway), but look at the receipts posted around them

Police issue brass knuckles
 
Well I must say you had my attention (as usual) at the first photo, That big powder mug would shake your teeth when you pulled the friction fuse string i'm betting.
Don that photo you have of my big gun firing was charged with about 1/4 the powder that the small cup would hold.

As always Chicken, keep air in your chair and the shiny side up!!!
 
historicalarms said:
Well I must say you had my attention (as usual) at the first photo, That big powder mug would shake your teeth when you pulled the friction fuse string i'm betting.
Don that photo you have of my big gun firing was charged with about 1/4 the powder that the small cup would hold.

As always Chicken, keep air in your chair and the shiny side up!!!
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I've got some trivia for you- curious how much of this you knew (and I might have some of it wrong)

The colours (flag) were a symbol of victory, during the wars. So at the battle of Baltimore, when the British attacked, men literally died to keep the flagpole upright. The nation wasn't even formed yet but it was that important to them. Francis Scott Key was a lawyer and a poet who wrote a poem about it. That started the tradition of why the flag must never touch the ground

And the bridge in Baltimore that fell down last year? The Francis Scott Key bridge, that's who it was named after
 
That is interestingly ironic....keeping the flag up but having his bridge fall !!
Im not much up on "war of independence" trivia but I can usually hold my own on civil war history.
One thing that gets me when I fire my big gun with only 1/4 the powder charge of a "in service field piece", is the noise ( bigger boom than any hunting rifle youve heard) and can only imagine what it was like at Gettysburg with 160 big guns on the Union side & 140 on the confederate side hammering each other across a valley for 3 solid days.
 
the governor ordered thousands to be made, until someone pointed out how impractical they were
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Sigh. Some things never change?

Separate note - The battle of Baltimore was during what is commonly referred to as "The war of 1812", not the war of American independence. The USA had existed as a nation for a couple of decades by that time.

And here's another perspective on that particular episode, for those who are not well versed in the historical classics:
 
historicalarms said:
That is interestingly ironic....keeping the flag up but having his bridge fall !!
Im not much up on "war of independence" trivia but I can usually hold my own on civil war history.
One thing that gets me when I fire my big gun with only 1/4 the powder charge of a "in service field piece", is the noise ( bigger boom than any hunting rifle youve heard) and can only imagine what it was like at Gettysburg with 160 big guns on the Union side & 140 on the confederate side hammering each other across a valley for 3 solid days.
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I couldn't imagine. I read the Augusta arsenal made 2.75 million pounds of powder from the start of the war to the end. But I guess if you're using 100 pounds per day per cannon, (making up numbers) you're going to go through a lot of it
 
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Let me see if I remember this right- a limber and a caisson were pulled by a team of six horses. Another team of six pulled the cannon. The sergeant (maybe?) rode separately. The crew of nine could ride on the wagons if need be.

Each limber and caisson were identical and designed to be swapped out. Each caisson had a spare tire and spare axle. Each limber held 50 rounds.

The single cannon pictured had a bore of 4.62". It required 2 pounds of powder, because of where the touch hole is located.

That was the answer I received, when I asked about the noise level on the field during battle
 
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