Confederate 32 pound Gun on Wooden Model 1839 (Mordecai) Front Pintel Seacoast Barbette Carriage 54-mm (1/32 scale) resin kit
Made in USA by Cottage Industry Ltd
# CO SG-006
$54.00
This gun was used by both sides and originally intended for naval use. Especially the Confederacy figured out that these guns made great shore defense weapons, and so they were installed in forts, batteries, etc. There are a number of them still in existence in Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and Pulaskie. They were very much a standard weapon, so common, seeing much action in many fronts during the War. Barbette mountings in field works allowed the artillery across the top of the superior slope without breaking the continuity of the parapet. During the Civil War, barbettes were usually adopted for heavy artillery in specialized field works designed to concentrate 2 or more cannon on a relatively small front called "batteries". Our resin kit is fairly easy to build and measures about 6 inches from edge to edge.
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