Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The "Union" Gun For The Monitor

It is reported that the mammoth “Union” gun cast in Pittsburgh is to be transferred to the Monitor, and the dispatch with which the projectiles for it are being hurried up, would go to show that the rumor may not be altogether without foundation. Mr. Ericsson has stated that the Monitor was designed to carry much heavier guns than those now in use, and the “Union” supplied with the elongated and improved projectiles no being made for her in Pittsburgh, would certainly constitute a most effective and formidable engine of defense and destruction.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

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