d in combat. A number were captured by the Con-federates in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862against General Fremont, and others found their way to out-of-the-way and inglorious theaters of combat. As ProfessorBruce puts it, By 1868 all the Ellsworth guns had vanishedinto limbo or Dixie. Until… … FIGURE 1. This is a photograph of the recently discovered barrel of a small cannon. Taken just two months ago,it shows a small square hole near the breech in the lower left-hand corner of the picture. Two metal wedges and atray to hold them have been removed to expose the holes. FIGURES 2 and 3 on…
