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	<title>To the Sound of the Guns</title>
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		<title>From &#8217;63 to &#8217;66: The later batches of 3-inch Ordnance Rifles</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/later-3-inch-ord-rifles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3-inch Rifles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3-inch Ordnance Rifle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In earlier posts I&#8217;ve discussed the 3-inch Ordnance Rifles produced by Phoenix Iron Company through 1862.  Early guns had &#8220;side sights&#8221; and lacked a stamp for Samuel Reeves&#8217; patent.  Although some sources indicate the patent stamp appeared with registry number &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/later-3-inch-ord-rifles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9482&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Stamps and Extra Sights: Middle Batches of 3-inch Ordnance Rifles</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/middle-3-in-ord-rifles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3-inch Rifles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3-inch Ordnance Rifle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg Battlefield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix Iron Works]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In earlier posts I referenced a middle &#8220;batch&#8221; of 3-inch Ordnance Rifles from Phoenix Iron Company.  The writers of Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War, while not neatly describing this as a set, referenced markings on Phoenix guns with &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/middle-3-in-ord-rifles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9470&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Oddity for Leesburg: Tredegar Rifle Siege Howitzer</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/tredegar-rifled-siege-howitzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[8-inch Howitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rifle Siege Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8-inch siege howitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Harvey Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange & Alexandria Railroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tredegar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Central]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the Civil War broke out, rifled artillery was all the rage.  Officials took old guns in hand for conversion, usually amounting to cutting rifling grooves and adding a reinforce band.  At the same time the foundries took existing patterns &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/tredegar-rifled-siege-howitzer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9458&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Clearing at Gettysburg&#8217;s Powers Hill</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/powers-hill-tree-clearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Pike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culps Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Forbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg National Military Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Powers Hill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While in Gettysburg yesterday, I took the time to stop at one of the least visited locations of the battlefield &#8211; Powers Hill.  There are several reasons to revisit this location, even if you are a Gettysburg Grognard.  The Gettysburg &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/powers-hill-tree-clearing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9453&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovered and Restored, a 10-inch Confederate Columbiad</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/10-inch-cs-columbiad-restored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Carolina Live/WPDE news of Myrtle Beach/Florence, South Carolina: (Read more here) If you are a regular reader, you know the gun is a 10-inch Confederate Columbiad, to revised pattern. I&#8217;m amazed the markings remained so legible after the prolonged &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/10-inch-cs-columbiad-restored/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9447&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Friday &#8216;splody: Civil War Cannons</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/some-friday-splody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12pdr Howitzers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3-inch Rifles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parrotts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Pulaski National Monument]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ordnance Rifle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy day on this end and not much time for creativity.  So I&#8217;ll steal a line from Xbrad and post some &#8216;splody videos.  I&#8217;ve assigned myself the mission to post something about Fort Clinch in the next few weeks and &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/some-friday-splody/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9443&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First of Many: Early Batches of 3-inch Ordnance Rifles</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/early-3-inch-ord-rifles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3-inch Rifles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artillery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3-inch Ordnance Rifle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I discussed the different makes which observers might call &#8220;ordnance rifles.&#8221;  But for now I&#8217;ll return to the common definition of the type and look at the first batches of 3-inch rifles produced by Phoenix Iron Company. References indicate &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/early-3-inch-ord-rifles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9430&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never mind those graves&#8230; Play Ball!</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/cw-cemetery-turned-to-bbfield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Jeffersonville (Indiana) News and Tribune: Despite graves, Jeffersonville will use Colston as ball field Even after confirming the existence of graves there last fall, the city of Jeffersonville will keep Colston Park as a softball field — at &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/cw-cemetery-turned-to-bbfield/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9425&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>150 Years Ago: The Guns of Fort Donelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day.  But in 1862, Valentine&#8217;s Day wasn&#8217;t such a pleasant day.  I yesterday mentioned the engagement on the Savannah River between Federal batteries and Confederate gunboats.  The respective seats changed along the Cumberland River where the Federal Mississippi &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/guns-of-fort-donelson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9382&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>150 Years Ago: Fort Pulaski Isolated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day (February 13) in 1862, a Federal battery along the Savannah River fired upon a Confederate steamer Ida.  While not stopping the steamer, the presence of the batteries prevented any further resupply of Fort Pulaski.  This course of &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/ft-pulaski-isolated/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602717&amp;post=9379&amp;subd=markerhunter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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