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Drennen-Scott House volunteers have taken the “Mountain Howitzer” to both the Civil War re-enactment at Prairie Grove in December and the Paris Frontier days in October. A small trailer is used to ...
“It was like being reunited with a long-lost friend,” Whitlock said Friday as he showed off the mountain ... the howitzer and used it during the rest of the war. Donated after Civil War ...
Company E of the 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment chose as its trophy a mountain howitzer near ... the first Democrat elected since the Civil War, the howitzer resurfaced — fully repaired and ready ...
In the Civil War, 160 years ago, the first Black soldiers fought ... Spillars now owns a replica of a 12-pound mountain howitzer. The interior tube of the cannon is not full-size but the rest of the ...
Those looking to get a sense of some critical events that immediately preceded our nation’s bloodiest battle should circle July 21 and July 22 on the calendar, when the Union Mills Homestead ...
A dig at a Civil War battle site turned dangerous this month when researchers unearthed a live artillery shell. Archeologists at the Kennesaw Mountain ... the M777 howitzer, the main towed ...
FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) — A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain ...
One of Wabasha County’s Civil War Mountain Howitzers will be on display in the event tent, and the Second Minnesota Light Artillery will fire a replica mountain howitzer during the event.