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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 55341, member: 54&quot;]Here’s the auction description and a pic of how they were moved back during the era of the War of Northern Aggression, 1861-65.&nbsp; Auction piece dates from 1850’s.&nbsp; The photo below shows a cannon weighing about twice what mine weighed, being moved by a “sling cart.”&nbsp; Cannon barrel in the pic was made by Tredegar Foundry in Richmond, for the Confederacy, and is shown with two Union officers after its capture near Richmond.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2080-373/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2080-373/" rel="nofollow">http://jamesdjulia.com/item/2080-373/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://civilwartalk.com/attachments/1865-04-sling-cart-nr-drewry-s-bluff-james-river-va-x-wm-f-browne_lrg-jpg.24410/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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