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Re: 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay

That is a standard U.S. Army 32-pounder seacoast gun in barbette carriage. Very common in most pre-Civil War forts, they were smaller and didn't shoot the heavier rounds that the Columbiads did during the war.

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