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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: April 12, 2008
Caption: 24 pounder Austrian Field Howizters
Additional Description: The two guns placed to represent the Madison Light Artillery are of Austrian origin. Both were imported during the war to supplement a shortage of weapons in the Confederacy. However, the battery was more likely armed with U.S. manufacture 24-pdr Field Howitzers at the time of the battle. The Austrian howitzers were shorter and weighed half as much as the American types.
Submitted: August 8, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p31005
File Size: 1.225 Megabytes

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