The Dictator - the traveling mortar in front of Petersburg in 1864. This is the 13-inch mortar, a 200-pound exploding shell from which threw a Confederate field-piece and its carriage above its parapet, at a range of nearly two miles. The 17,000 pounds of this mortar made it difficult to move, so it was mounted on an ordinary railroad car strengthened by additional beams and plated on top with iron.

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