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 ...

the guns at the South Carolina forts where the Civil War began. Jim Thompson of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Trust said Friday that the group has started an Adopt-A-Cannon drive to help the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.