1839 18lbr

[RocklockI]

The canon Whisling Dick is very interesting to me .

Do any of you have a line drawing or photo of WD or even one of the type . I only found one in the Civil War directory (smooth) and unbanded I suppose. It is located at Trophy Point and I can't even find a photo of it .

The last I can find of what maybe Dick is a referance to a

CHAP. XXXVI.]   THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG, MISS.   PAGE 337-37  [Series I. Vol. 24. Part II, Reports. Serial No. 37.]
  "8-inch columbiad, 1 7.44-inch Blakely gun, 1 7-inch Brooks, 1 6.4-inch
  Brooks, 3 smooth-bore 42-pounders, 2 smooth-bore 32-pounders, 8 banded
  and unbanded 32-pounder rifles, 1 18-pounder rifle, 1 20-pounder Parrott,
  1 Whitworth, 1 10-inch mortar, 1 8-inch siege howitzer, making in all 31
  pieces of heavy artillery, besides 13 pieces of light artillery, which were
  placed in position to prevent a landing of the enemy on the city front."

"On the 22d, at 9 a.m., four iron-clads and one wooden gunboat engaged the
  lower batteries, and after an engagement of one hour and a half were
  repulsed. Two of the iron-clads were seriously damaged. This engagement
  was creditable To the First Louisiana Artillery, who, with ten guns,
  mostly of small caliber, contested successfully against thirty-two heavy
  guns of the enemy. Our casualties were only 2 wounded during the fight;
  one 10-inch columbiad and the 18-pounder rifled gun were temporarily
  disabled. The Blakely gun burst at the muzzle.

 "On the 28th, the 18-pounder rifled gun was sent to the rear lines, in
  charge of Capt. L. B. Haynes' company (E), First Regiment Louisiana
  Artillery.

Is there more to the story ? Is this the last know of Dick ? Sorry ,if I'm rehashing old info , I'm playing catch up here.

rocklock
 

[cannonmn]

Best coverage of WD as I recall is in Warren Ripley's ARTILLERY AND AMMUNITION OF THE CIVIL WAR, one of the "must have" artillery books.  This book has been reprinted many times and should be available on ebay, Amazon, etc., take a look, probably cheap.

[RocklockI]

It's on the toget list , I've seen them as low as $20 .Thanks rocklock

[cannonmn]

One reason I like Ripley's book so much is it is so readable.  Warren Ripley was a lifelong newspaper man in Charleston SC, and he had to write interesting stuff to keep his job, so his book is very interesting.  His other cannon book (maybe there are more I don't know about) is a real page-turner for anyone interested in Confederate artillery and how they managed to do what they did.  It is a diary of a prominent southern ordnance officer who was trying to hold things together in the Charleston area.  SIEGE TRAIN, I recommend it.  It is a diary so it is all 100% true and tells it the way it was.

It gives a lot of gun numbers so I looked them up in the national archives to see where the guns were from and then checked Stark's list to see how many survive today.  Most of the guns mentioned were taken by the South at the Norfolk Navy Yard.