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Robert Wall | all galleries >> Galleries >> civil_war_forts > Rodman Gun In Transit To Fort Hamilton, New York
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1864 Burnite & Weldon

Rodman Gun In Transit To Fort Hamilton, New York

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

20-Inch Rodman Gun Pattern 1864
Two of these behemoths were cast at the Old Fort Pitt foundry in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. This gun weighed 115,200 pounds and could fire a solid shot weighing 1080 pounds a distance of 8000 yards. These guns were so enormous that a special railroad car had to be built for their transport.


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