An immense fifteen inch gun was cast at the Fort Pitt works yesterday. It weighs in the rough, we believe, over 70,000 pounds, yet it was cast in less than fourteen minutes – a fact which shows the completeness of the arrangements, and that the men having the work in charge thoroughly understand their business.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 3
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