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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
I was in Atlanta Georgia earlier this week, ....
Associated with the Cyclorama is an excellent museum of Civil War objects, including a wide range of rifles and pistols with good, detailed captions, not the 'one liners' we so often see in museums these days. There is also a fine collection of ordnance and projectiles, including this rather interesting 'fin stabilised' experimental projectile manufactured by a Confederate armory. The caption states it was a winged projectile for increasing the range and accuracy of smooth-bore cannons. The wings were spring-loaded and extended upon the projectile leaving the bore.
Mike
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Ahh, museum captions. I hope one day there will be a museum that records and displays all those one liners!
The projectile shown is not for a smooth bore cannon. It has "buttons" that engage with rifling, which was used in the Armstrong breech loading rifled barrels.