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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
who contacted the cemetery not long ago offering a full-size replica Civil War cannon — a 12-pound mountain howitzer — acquired by her late husband, Richard. Richard, who died on Feb. 6 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
The U.S. Army has begun the process of restarting M777 howitzer production ... Even as late as the Civil War, the primary role of artillery was to attack enemy infantry, without much thought ...
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.
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 ...