The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Civil War Cannons Returned in Racine, Wisconsin

The April 4th Chicago Sun-Times ran an article on a pair of Civil War cannons that will be returned next month to their spots in the city's Monument Square where they had been for over a hundred years.

It would appear that Racine's mayor at first wanted to get rid of them and kept them in a shed before offering them to nearby Kenosha for display in their Civil War Museum.

According to Mayor Gary Becker, they'd been off the square for a year and a half and no one said anything about it. But when people heard we "might loan them to Kenosha, then everyone cared."

The city received 122 letters with 113 wanting the cannons back in Monument Square.

Well, they're back and the city has even approved $15,000 for new bases.

The article didn't say why they were moved in the first place, but I would guess it was for work on the square.

Don't Move My Cannons!!! --B-Runner

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