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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 16, 2009
Caption: 6-pdr Model 1861 Ames Field Gun
Additional Description: This 6-pdr was produced by Ames Manufacturing of Boston, Massachusetts in 1861. It conformed to the "new" Ordnance Department specifications for a smooth exterior shape (what we would later call streamlined) to reduce stress points. This gun has a muzzle mark for "GTB" initials of George Thatcher Balch. Another marking appears to be a "2" indicating the registry number.
Submitted: July 23, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p71538
File Size: 1.390 Megabytes

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