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The "Small Gun"
Photographer: Pete Skillman
Taken: November 28, 2019
Caption: The "Small Gun"
Additional Description: This artillery piece is said to have fired the first shot of the Civil War in the west at Vicksburg, MS in April of 1861.
Submitted: March 17, 2022, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware.
Database Locator Identification Number: p643547
File Size: 1.474 Megabytes

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