(Civil War) 20-inch Rodman Gun.- Model 1861 Wyoming adding to the shoreline

adding to the shoreline

full of vignettes surrounding the delicious biscuits

as it is certainly coming

and this map spotlights that first period of exploration in the northeast that is being reworked and redeveloped today

Condition is good with some very light soiling to the far left portion

(Civil War) 20-inch Rodman Gun.- Model 1861 Wyoming adding to the shoreline(Civil War) 20 inch Rodman Gun. Model 1861, McClelland U. S. Govt., c. 1861 Only 2 were ever made, in 1864, and both survive to today. It is the largest muzzle loading smooth bore cannon ever made and could shoot over 8,000 yards. On its first tests the twenty foot long cannon took a one hundred pound powder charge and sent a cannon ball over three miles away, landing in the sea after several bounces to make a splash taller than the ships of the time.