From the March 26, 2022, McHenry County Civil War Round Table discussion group.
** The cannon called the Swamp Angel at Charleston, South Carolina, was a 200-pounder Parrott and had a gun crew from the 11th Maine. During its career, it fired 35 massive projectiles, with 10 of them containing an incendiary mixture known as Greek Fire.
Charleston was 4 1/2 miles away.
But six other incendiary shells exploded prematurely. It exploded on its 36th shot.
** On December 24, 1864, at Fort Fisher, the 100-pdr Parrott on board the USS Juniata exploded, killing 5 sailors and two officers and badly injured 8 more.
The autopsy of Fireman Theodore Abos: "left leg, thigh, hip. arm and forearm fractured, soft parts extensively lacerated, killed by hemorrhage and shock."
--Old Secesh
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