CSPAN3 Washingtons Civil War Forts And Parks August 20, 2014
Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this, plus even at times you could put chains and Everything Else in here and fire it at an enemy. And, ...