"Olustee 1864 at the Uni" Topic
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| Sparker | 01 Apr 2014 2:42 a.m. PST |
Dear All, At GongCon this year our centrepiece was the ACW Battle of Olustee 1864.
My thoughts here: link Kaptain Kobold's despatches here: link
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| Mark Strachan | 20 Apr 2014 8:47 p.m. PST |
One little known fact about Olustee is that at the very end of the battle a Confederate 30-pounder Parrott gun mounted on a railroad carriage appeared and fired three rounds "with unknown effect". In a strange irony in command of this big gun was Lieutenant Drury Rambo, Co. A Milton Light Artillery. (See Rambo's report Official Records War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol. 35, part 1, p 348) |
| Sparker | 21 Apr 2014 1:52 p.m. PST |
And there was us thinking the railroad had no effect on the battle and so not modelling it! |
| Grumble87106 | 08 Sep 2014 10:18 a.m. PST |
I ran Olustee some years ago and included the railroad gun. However, I could not find info about the type, so I modeled a big generic gun that looked more like a Napoleon than a Parrott. |
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