Hello,
I have some images from the 'Five Guys' trip that Mike reported on in the "General Discussion" area of the forum. These two images are very on topic of the forum and might yield some good discussion so I opted for the artillery area.
The image below is of a 32-lber smoothbore cannon that was located in the Port Hudson defenses. Ronmack took us on a tour of the battlefield that included seeing this tube. It was taken to West Point after the war until it was loaned to Port Hudson to put on display. Of note there is a broken muzzle, broken trunnion and an impact mark on the top right of the tube showing how brutal the shelling was at the emplacement that contained this gun.
With the cannon was a plaque that showed a period image of the same gun dismounted after the battle. You can clearly see the broken muzzle and see the broken trunnion laying in the foreground. Not a good day at the office for those Confederate gunners:
This cannon was located near Slaughter's Field on the south end of the siege lines. It is now sadly covered by a Georgia-Pacific plant if I have the location right. I'm sure Rommack can correct me if wrong.
