Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination

It's reported in the history of Cold Spring, NY ("1845 Cold Spring NY" on the funeral train route traced in Google Earth) named for the spring near the Hudson River by George Washington, its said, that Abraham Lincoln had come to the West Point Foundry to witness the firing of the 200lb and 300lb Parrott rifled cannons, patented by R.P. Parrott in 1861, adding a twist to the "sabot" of a shell, and "banding" the barrel base for strength. I worked on the EPA Superfund National Priority cleanup of the cadmium in the Foundry Cove from the NIKE missile battery production at Marathon Battery factory. We discovered a very similar if not the R.P. Parrott gun platform seen in the old photographs of the "Swamp Angel" which bombarded Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, before exploding, about 6 miles from the downtown of that city, involved in the siege of Fort Sumter, later again pulverized at the end of the Civil War. There is some story about it being "a student firing at an artillery teacher" he recently placed in charge there. They had had many disagreements in class at the West Point Military Academy across the Hudson River from the foundry it's reported, the student part of the battery that fired the first shots in the American Civil War.

Google Earth Community: USA Presidential Assassinations

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