Yesterday, I went to Grant Park in Galena where I saw the two Civil War cannons I wrote about last year. They are part of four pieces of artillery at the park, all of which were captured during the Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War I. That means captured from the Confederacy, Spain and Germany.
Two of them are Confederate cannons. One is a bronze 12-pdr. Napoleon made in 1862 in Cincinnati, but captured by Confederates then recaptured.
The other one is a Blakely rifled gun given to South Carolina by a citizen living in Britain in honor of the state's secession from the Union. It took part in the opening action of the war with the firing on Fort Sumter and was captured by Union forces near Cheraw, SC, near the end of the war.
The Civil War Up Nawth. --Old B-Runner
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