This really happened to a soldier of the union army when fort sumner was surrendered to the confederates. The confederates allowed on terms of surrender the union army to fire a 100 gun salute in honor of their countries flag. One of the guns blew up killing a soldier, anderson later reduced it to a 31 gun salute. Little bit of history for you
@WhiteBoy7tnst It was Fort Sumter, Fort Sumner is in New Mexico, and the salute was shortened to 50-gun, not 31, as the explosion occurred on the 47th shot.
The only Confederate soldier to die in that engagement died similarly when a cannon misfired.
Sorry bud...you're not fooling me. This is hardly a civil war cannon! In fact, it looks like something that was cooked by from a piece of pipe to be made to look like a canon.
It's definately not an actual CW cannon (look at the carriage details, too) but it does give you the idea of what happens when a barrel blows. This was obviously for demo purposes. If somebody blew up a real one, there'd be hell to pay!
Right, I had a bunch of old powder and so used some PVC pipe and scrap lumber to make the cannon and get rid of the powder. Wouldn't dare do that with a real one, way to expensive among other things. Also, we set the camera's up and started them filming before we even lit the fuse, then got far away.
Oh. My. God. Yeah, I'm gonna make sure we keep our cannon nice and clean! We're on artillery!
SmokeyHickChick 1 month ago
That is a bomb
nicksynnz 9 months ago
This really happened to a soldier of the union army when fort sumner was surrendered to the confederates. The confederates allowed on terms of surrender the union army to fire a 100 gun salute in honor of their countries flag. One of the guns blew up killing a soldier, anderson later reduced it to a 31 gun salute. Little bit of history for you
WhiteBoy7tnst 1 year ago
@WhiteBoy7tnst It was Fort Sumter, Fort Sumner is in New Mexico, and the salute was shortened to 50-gun, not 31, as the explosion occurred on the 47th shot.
The only Confederate soldier to die in that engagement died similarly when a cannon misfired.
Redmanfms 6 months ago
@Redmanfms Acctually it was a Union, not a Confederate.
Skattles54 2 months ago
@Skattles54 Read my comment again very carefully noting the capitalized word:
"It was Fort Sumter, Fort Sumner is in New Mexico, and the salute was shortened to 50-gun, not 31, as the explosion occurred on the 47th shot.
The only Confederate soldier to die in that engagement died SIMILARLY when a cannon misfired."
So, acctually (sic), everything in my comment was correct.
Redmanfms 2 months ago
@Redmanfms My fault, I did not read your comment correctly.
Skattles54 2 months ago
Sorry bud...you're not fooling me. This is hardly a civil war cannon! In fact, it looks like something that was cooked by from a piece of pipe to be made to look like a canon.
nbkc21d 2 years ago
It's definately not an actual CW cannon (look at the carriage details, too) but it does give you the idea of what happens when a barrel blows. This was obviously for demo purposes. If somebody blew up a real one, there'd be hell to pay!
ldudley2009 2 years ago
Right, I had a bunch of old powder and so used some PVC pipe and scrap lumber to make the cannon and get rid of the powder. Wouldn't dare do that with a real one, way to expensive among other things. Also, we set the camera's up and started them filming before we even lit the fuse, then got far away.
civilwargeneral 2 years ago
ohhh boy cap'n Henderson would not be too happy if this was our gun....
bullyboy1863 2 years ago
general jeff good thing this was not your new cannon , capt. cal would have jumped out of his shoes
371520282 3 years ago