Do you think Facebook the best invention since pockets in pants or a collosal waste of time? Somewhere in between, like oatmeal ... with dried cherries? Well, today came this little ditty from the Stones River National Battlefield FB site, with a reenactor picture of a cannon being fired, all together doing a nice little job of teaching something ... if one is on FB to learn ...
From the album: Stones River Stories
By Stones River National Battlefield
The deadly fire of Battery A, First Michigan Artillery as they defended the Nashville Pike impressed Lt. Alfred Pirtle - "I never saw guns served as fast ... Before the the recoil was expended the gunners grasped the spokes and threw the pieces into position; ... the swab was run in, the handle turned, withdrawn, the charge sent home, and the gun fired."
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