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Answer: When it is a bronze rifle rebored to masquerade as a 12-pounder.
I visited Chancellorsville earlier this week. At Hazel Grove they have redone the confederate battery since the last time I was there (Been several years) and I've learned a lot since then. I noticed that one of the three Napoleons didn't quite look right. Upon closer examination I noticed the breech was about three inches smaller in diameter. I looked at the muzzel. Here's what I saw:
You can just see the rifled original bore several inches inside the tube. Unfortunately all the maufacturing information was ground off the muzzel. I would really have liked to know what this gun began life as. Does anyone in the peanut gallery have a hypothesis?
The Park ranger told me they also have a 3-in ordnance rifle maquerading as a parrott somewhere in the Fredricksburg/Spotsylvania Military Park as well.
Last edited on Fri Jul 21st, 2006 09:02 pm by TimHoffman01