James McPherson Posted on October 24th, 2013 by

Talking Cannons at Harper's Ferry

James McPherson is an energetic guy.  We’re busy chasing him around Mid-Atlantic battlefields this week.  And we’re learning all manner of things – from the manufacturing techniques of battlefield ordnance to the relationships between different characters in the Civil War story.  Here, we’re talking about how to load and fire a field rifle (apparently they didn’t always call them cannons back then).

 

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