I ran across this picture while looking for others. This is inside the chapel at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are six original mountain howitzers barrels set into the walls, three on each side.
Max,
That's a great photo; to quote the late Johnny Carson, "I did not know that". I've never seen or heard of the chapel nor its unique wall decorations before. I wonder if these six shiny pieces have been recorded in the National Register of Surviving Civil War Artillery?
I've now got the notion to recommend this to our Parish authorities, I haven't had a priest close to cursing me out since I was a youth. Though instead of the wall mountings I think they'd make excellent holy water fonts, I'll suggest two standing on bases beside the main doors with specially made bowls that fit in the muzzles.