The flooring behind the embrasure of the rebel fortifications at Centerville, upon which the wooden guns rested, was made of inch hemlock boards, and of course could never have sustained real guns. This statement made by the correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer confirms the fact no real guns were ever mounted there. It is said that some of the embrasures were so constructed that the light field pieces of which the rebels had some twenty or thirty at Centerville, could have been used through them.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2
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