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Re: Rate of Fire / Size of Charge

Good website and info. There is at least one rifled bronze six pounder at Fredericksburg. Down on the right on Jackson's line. It is a Cyrus and Alger tube. Rifling in bronze guns didn't last long. I thought most were used for R&D. I'm still amazed that the Federals had that many of them in service at and around Vicksburg, that "late" in the war.

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