Posted by Mabry Tyson on January 14, 2004 at 05:04:01:
In Reply to: Apparently 6.4 inch Rifled gun posted by Mabry Tyson on February 27, 2003 at 06:31:30:
: Since all the other starboard broadsides had to be IX-inch Dahlgrens, by process of elimination this has to be a 6.4inch rifled gun.
Wrong! Eggleston says his guns were hot shot and were 6.4inch rifled guns. That makes #4 and #5 as the 6.4inch guns.
Thus, this gun was a IX-inch Dahlgren