FITCHBURG — The two Civil War-era ... or leather buckets to hold charges. The city hopes to complete fundraising by June and send the cannons out of state to replace the wooden base with metal ...

who also produces the Civil War News and Military Antique Collector for Historical Publications in Charleston, S.C. All the bomb squad needs to do, he said, is put the round in a bucket of water.

They moved inside, where deputies came across a wooden box, maybe 6 feet long ... The deputies looked more closely: It was a Civil War cannon barrel, battered with use, adorned with an eagle.

adding that the cannon was likely built well before the Civil War. As weathered as the mounted gun’s barrel was, its wooden spokes and carriage were in even worse shape. For that part of the ...

DOVER — It took seven soldiers to operate a 1,230-pound bronze Napoleon-style cannon and limber during the Civil War. That’s not ... still sits on its original wood, and the ammunition chest ...

The Sternwheeler itself joins in the fun as well, loading up with a cannon on front and actors with Civil War era equipment and uniforms on the boat. “We have artillery people on the boat with ...

They also offered genuine "hard tack," which is a mix of salt water and flour baked into a hard cracker that was a Civil War soldier's diet ... each hold two thick, wooden, pointed sticks ...

They were a part of a Civil War re-enactment ... with water to douse her.” The blast happened at the start of the parade, the city’s Department of Public Safety said. The cannon was fired ...

VERNAL — From his brogans to his kepi, it's easy to see that Val Spruell is passionate about the Civil War. Of course, his cannon is a dead ... Cadillac and two water-filled barrels.

In the video, Woods says that even though his cannon trap wasn't made in 1862, the trap does work similarly to a Civil War-era rifle, complete with gun powder and lead bullets. "Even though our ...

“Oh, you can get hurt by this thing - if you drop it on your foot,” remarked Jack Melton, publisher of the Artilleryman Magazine, a specialty publication about Civil War cannons and shells.