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Second Gun
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 1, 2011
Caption: Second Gun
Additional Description: The second rifled 32-pdr faces Cathedral Street on the other side of the plaza. Like the first gun, this example was cast as a smoothbore in 1846. Also inspected by Alfred Mordecai, it received the registry number 5. The gun weighed 7215 pounds. Also like the other gun, this one received nine rifle grooves sometime during the Civil War.
Submitted: September 3, 2011, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p170578
File Size: 3.339 Megabytes

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