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02/10/2025

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01/30/2025

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01/27/2025

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Email from Historical Publications LLC This Weekend! Mike Kent's Chickamauga (Dalton) Civil War Show & Sale This Weekend!  February 1 & 2, 2025 at the Dalton Convention Center 2211 Tony Ingle Parkway

01/22/2025

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01/19/2025

12 Pdr, Common Shell, Bormann Fused. This example is Federal. The fuse disc and underplug unscrew.

01/17/2025

CS Tredegar smooth sided Read for 2.9” parrott. Wood fuse plug and large lathe dimple

01/10/2025

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01/04/2025

Dr. John B. Read, wore many hats, Physician, Pharmacist and most notably Surgeon for the University of Alabama Corps of Cadets.
But his real interest was ordnance, Dr. Read obtained a patent in 1856 for a projectile.
Dr. Read conducted public experiments, during a three year period, before the close of 1859. Most of these experiments with projectiles and their sabots were at his own expense. Read's first patent came in October of 1856, the nature being in the attachment to the butt of Elongated Cannon Shells, of a cupped cylinder of wrought-iron, fastened to the body of the shell, by having its perforated bottom embedded in the cast-iron, of which the shell was composed, while its sides project beyond, and are so thinned down as to be capable of such expansion, by the charge of the gun on firing, as to fit its bore exactly and imparting rotary motion to projectiles, when rifle-grooves are employed.
This method, was adopted by the Confederate foundries, as the most acceptable form of attaching a sabot, to a Rifled Projectile.
Read's patent, also covers almost every possible way, to attach a sabot to the bottom of a rifled projectile.
Dr. Read brought his invention to Robert Parker Parrott, superintendent of the West Point Foundry, located in Cold Spring, N.Y.
Where afterwards, Parrott purchased from Read, the sole right on manufacture of Read's projectile, for the United States Government in 1857.
Since Read covered about every conceivable way to attach a sabot to a projectile, it leaves the students of ordnance, unsure as to what to call certain types of projectiles, for example the Parrott and Broun projectiles with the high-brass and copper bands.
Read patent projectiles that were used extensively throughout the War by the Confederacy.
Pictured below, is a 3-inch. Confederate Read projectile, with copper fuse plug-adaptor, and copper ring sabot.

01/04/2025

Confederate Heavy Artillery Battery on the James River above Dutch Gap.

01/03/2025

Photographer George Smith Cook's, photograph of the Palmetto Light Artillery, near Charleston S.C.
Assigned to the 3rd Artillery Battalion, Army of Tennessee, the Battery saw service at Jackson, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Hood's Tennessee Campaign, Charleston, and the North Carolina Campaign.

01/03/2025

The Confederate Garrison at Fort Morgan strengthened the Fort’s armament with heavier and more powerful Guns during the War. The Gun you see here is a 7-inch Confederate Brooke Rifle weighing over 15,000 lbs. cast at the Selma Naval Ordinance Works.
Firing a 98 lb. solid projectile over three miles, the Brooke was one of the best guns of the War. The South’s limited industrial capacity hampered the production, with only two of these heavy Seacoast Defense Guns provided to Fort Morgan.

12/24/2024

My Christmas present arrived today. CS Polygon cavity 13pdr with copper fuse adapter thst unscrews.

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12/23/2024

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