** Before the war, there was an explosion of a cannon on the USS Princeton in 1844 that almost killed President Tyler.
** The Secession Cannon was a field piece from Charleston, South Carolina.
** Leeds cannons were produced in New Orleans.
** There is a Blakely cannon at Grant Park in Galena, Illinois. It fired on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861, and was captured in 1865.
** One reason the Confederacy was able to capture so many U.S. cannons at the start of the war was because U.S. Secretary of War John B. Floyd (1857-1860) had started stockpiling U.A. armaments in arsenals throughout the South. (He later became a Confederate general. Makes you wonder.)
** Someone said there was a Benjamin Butler play in Rockford, Illinois.
Santa Anna's wooden leg from the Mexican War is at the Illinois Military Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Someone said that Mexico wants it back.
Not That We Ever Go Off Topic at Discussion Group. --Old Secesh
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