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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: November 29, 2009
Caption: The Napoleon 12-Pounder Field Gun Model 1857
Additional Description: No. 178 H.N.H. & Co. 1230 lbs
T.J.R. 1863
Translated, these figures indicate the weapon was the 178th of the 12-pdr Napoloens produced by Henry N. Hooper, inspected and accepted by the government. Thomas J. Rodman inspected the gun in 1863. It weighed 1,230 lbs at that time.
Submitted: December 2, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p88083
File Size: 1.070 Megabytes

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