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| Posted: Fri Apr 18th, 2008 03:22 pm |
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Bama46
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yes, there were, but not of a type we would recognize today. My memory of them is "shaky" at present...see "idle Chit-Chat" on this board....
Johann, can you continue this?
Ed
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18th, 2008 04:34 pm |
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Johan Steele
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Texas Defender gave a couple informative links. Yes they were used w/ dubious success. At Vicksburg they were used heavily w/ some being thrown back and forth between the trenches. I cannot recall anywhere else where they were used in any real numbers. Of note Vicksburg is also the last known battle where anyone ever used a catapult, about knee high and it was used to lob "unmentionables" into the CS works. Bored soldiers are dangerous.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19th, 2008 02:03 am |
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ole
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Starting at Ft. Sumter, there were grenades. However, they were so heavy as to be mostly unusable. When they were used, they were more likely to have been rolled down hill.
ole
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| Posted: Sun May 11th, 2008 11:45 pm |
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Dutchman Dick
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Dixie Gunworks in Union City, TN sells inert replicas of the Ketchum grenade, just as an FYI.
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