. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . IMPORTKl)FROMFRANCE RIFLES INVENTED BY JOHN M. BROOKE, C. S. N. AN OLD COLUMBIAD IRON BANDS ADDED. CONFEDERATE (ANNON—IMPORTED, MANUFACTURED, ADOlTED AND INVENTED Tlic Frcticli li-p(iiinilirliriiuzi li<l(l-f;nns in tlic tupplidlofjnipli were iiiadr hyLr Place FrertS in weighed 1,200 poundsand fired a projeetile weigh-ing 2534 pounds with aI 1 large of 2}4 pounds of pow-der. The Southern outputwas large, of the bronze 12-poimdens known as Napole-■ iiLs. During 180.! and 1804,no less than 110 of these weremanufactured
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . IMPORTKl)FROMFRANCE RIFLES INVENTED BY JOHN M. BROOKE, C. S. N. AN OLD COLUMBIAD IRON BANDS ADDED. CONFEDERATE (ANNON—IMPORTED, MANUFACTURED, ADOlTED AND INVENTED Tlic Frcticli li-p(iiinilirliriiuzi li<l(l-f;nns in tlic tupplidlofjnipli were iiiadr hyLr Place FrertS in weighed 1,200 poundsand fired a projeetile weigh-ing 2534 pounds with aI 1 large of 2}4 pounds of pow-der. The Southern outputwas large, of the bronze 12-poimdens known as Napole-■ iiLs. During 180.! and 1804,no less than 110 of these weremanufactured at the Au-gusta arsenal under the di-rection of General George\V. RaiiLs of the Confeder-ate ordnance service. Intlie lower photograph is anold Columhiad,strengthened at the Tred-egar Iron Works at Rich-numd, by the addition ofiron bands, after the Mum-per of tlie Brooke heavy ar-tillery invented by John , formerly of theUnited States navy, the de-signer of the ironclad Vir-ijinia—better known as theMcrrimac. The gun in themiddle of the second photo-graph is a light Brooke rifle—a 3-inch gun. Its lengthwas about seventy inches,
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