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Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

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Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

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I’m guessing it was used almost exclusively to destroy trains.
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  Siege of Petersburg, I believe, so trading fire between two relatively static lines.

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