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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #60 on: August 06, 2007, 05:40:44 PM »
this one is almost too easy, but to make it harder, name the house behind the CANNON.
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #61 on: August 06, 2007, 05:50:27 PM »
Thats ol' Wilmer McLeans pad . If his wife ever makes him sell that Napoleon., I want it
(Cool Pic Lance Thanks..., That Patina is awesome)
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #62 on: August 06, 2007, 05:52:31 PM »
WELL,INTOODEEP, did i get ya ;D............. i'm sorry TROPICO, your on the union side of town. i'm standing on the confederate side of town, come on guys..........o.k. it's late, i'm going to bed. i'll check tues night to see if anybody has "got it". if not i'll give the answer.
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #63 on: August 07, 2007, 02:03:19 AM »
  There were three 13 inch mortar barrels ( stuck in the mud nose down) at Fort Mcnair in Washington DC untill a short while ago when some military officer decided to take one and ship it off to Fort Hamilton in New York to be cleaned up and put on display there. A frind of mine who is a military historian for the area suspects that one reason this mortar barrel was taken is the belief by those who wanted it that this was the actual Petersburg Dictar mortar. My historian friend always suspected this to be the actual Dictator but was never allowed to dig up the tube to see the numbers on the front to confirm anything.Maybe someone up there or visiting the fort can look at the mortar, which is supposedly now on display, and get the numbers?
  By the way, there is a great collection of cannons on display at fort Mcnair and the Navy yard right near by!! Several 10 inch mortars on carriages as well! Very cool place to visit. I'd post pictures but since 911 they won't let you take pictures with out an escort and I haven't been able to arange that yet.

  Scott Springston
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #64 on: August 07, 2007, 03:35:58 AM »
Ding, Ding, Ding..... Is it the Peers House in Appomattox ?? ;)

 
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #65 on: August 07, 2007, 03:08:30 PM »
Quote from: intoodeep on August 07, 2007, 03:35:58 AM
Ding, Ding, Ding..... Is it the Peers House in Appomattox ?? ;)

 
INTOODEEP is the MAN!!! the house behind the cannon is the Peers house. wish i had some kinda prize to give ya. looks like i need to take a road trip and get some really hard to find cannon and mortar pics.................. Scott Springston, really like the info you posted about the mortars, hope you can get some pics sometime.
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #66 on: August 07, 2007, 05:29:37 PM »
The night they drove ole Dixie down. Nice picture Lance, You have a wealth of history around you, and I thank you for sharing your experiences.  Tracy
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #67 on: August 07, 2007, 06:39:39 PM »
     First of all, we really like Dominic's 1861 13" Seacoast Mortar a lot!  He does a fantastic job on the details and you guys know how we love the details!  Second, if you don't mind, Lance, we would like to expand on your "Cannon Sleuth" contest a little with some interesting and unusual cannons and locations we found on our trip through New York and New England recently.

     Before we do, however we will have to get a promise from INTOODEEP that a family member will tie his hands behind his back and put a dull pencil in his mouth to slow down his GOOGLING!!!!!  He is too damn quick!!  ;) ;)  We will call the thread "Where are these cannon located?"  Maybe some hints will be given, we'll see.

Until tomorrow,

Tracy and Mike
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #68 on: August 08, 2007, 03:56:50 AM »
Quote from: seacoastartillery on August 07, 2007, 06:39:39 PM
     
  Before we do, however we will have to get a promise from INTOODEEP that a family member will tie his hands behind his back and put a dull pencil in his mouth to slow down his GOOGLING!!!!!  He is too damn quick!!  ;) ;)  We will call the thread "Where are these located?"  Maybe some hints will be given, we'll see.

Until tomorrow,

Tracy and Mike


 Boy, you guys are tough.....  ;D  ;D  ;D But, I look forward to your posts.

 P.S.- If I was to allow a family member to tie me up I'm sure they would just leave me that way....
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #69 on: August 08, 2007, 03:11:31 PM »
Mike and Tracy of Seacoastartillery, you know i don't mind, actually looking forward to it!!! i was wondering what you guys were going to do, with all the pics you just HAD to of taken on your latest adventure. i'll be watching for your thread :) :) :).................. really i need to hit the back roads and get some pics anyway, maybe be cooler in october............... i'm going to get ya INTOODEEP, and your little dog too :D
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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #70 on: August 09, 2007, 06:04:52 AM »
     And your hamster too, INTOODEEP!   ;) ;) ;)    Boy oh boy are we ever vicious, Lance.    Put your thinking caps on at around noon, Mtn. time, today.

Tracy and Mike
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
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From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Dominick built, golf ball Dictator Mortar
« Reply #71 on: August 09, 2007, 02:56:29 PM »
   
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First of all, we really like Dominic's 1861 13" Seacoast Mortar a lot!  He does a fantastic job on the details and you guys know how we love the details!

     Wow, Thanks guys. 
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