Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination

I'm not sure it might just be a cadet story. The picture I think a photo, maybe a re-enactment, didn't have the Parrott gun I recall. At the end 100 lb Parrott rifled cannon were put in place at Fort Sumter. The explosion of the "Swamp Angel" was investigated by the Franklin Institute I think as to why it did. I think the results were inconclusive. The Parrott Gun Platform found at Foundry Cove in Cold Spring, NY, under the concrete stanchions of the circa 1900 "Bridge Shop" was found with over 600 spent friction primers (mercury fulminate nasty stuff) and was on top (without any gun and two empty shells found nearby, where over 1 million had once been made its said with 30,000 caissons) of timber "grillage" as it was constructed perhaps at Morris Island. It had a short section of railroad left up to it probably associated with it. The platform was cut up to retain the pintle and went to the museum in Orange County New York, once a foundry too, where one of Parrott's brothers ran an operation, six brothers from New Hampshire in all. Google Earth Community: Reply to (Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination) Herman Melville's poem "The Swamp Angel" commentary now only links to the Gutenberg Project in the book available on-line "Melville's Use of 'The Rebellion Record' In His Poetry," by Professor Emeritus Frank Day of Clemson University, digital press. The archaeology museum I once helped create at 17 State St. in NYC, run by the South Street Seaport, was created in response to the lot being trashed without appropriate procedures followed for cultural resources, i.e., Herman Melville, once a US Customs inspector, lived there, later famous for having written "Moby-Dick". It has since been closed and the artifacts moved to the State Museum in Albany, NY a fiscal decision by South Street Seaport. Famous Cannon and Mortars The Swamp Angel Swamp Angel Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). [The Swamp Angel?] [Morris Island (vicinity), South Carolina. The "Marsh Battery" or "Swamp Angel" after the explosion, August 22, 1863] The Swamp Angel, a unique gun emplacement delivered Charleston's first Civil War bombardment Swamp Yankee