Bring Out the Big Guns

Massive Civil War siege weapons could do a whole lot of damage—and not always just to the enemy. When Fort Sumter fell in April 1861, most of the Union’s 4,000 pieces of artillery were outdated garrison or coastal defense guns, like the Columbiad smoothbores that first saw service in the War of 1812. The awe-inspiring …

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