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Quaker Gun, Centreville, Virginia

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A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon. It was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy.

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What is a Quaker Gun?

Introduction A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The name derives from the Religious Society of Friends or…

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"At Union Mills we came upon the rebel works of defense. We came from the woods, which is nearly all of this nasty little pine, right out upon an open field from which, stretching away off in every direction could be seen earthworks. The country is not level, nor yet are there any very high hills, but there were breastworks to be seen in every direction. To the right on the top of a point, there was a small earthwork on which they had a number of Quaker guns mounted" [fake artillery made out of wood.] Wm. Medill, 8th Illinois Cavalry, Alexandria, Virginia, March 19, 1862 A Family and Nation Under Fire #iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A #nook https://goo.gl/DSQXGu #Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd KSU Press http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs

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THE BLIND MAN'S TOWN

THE BLIND MAN’S TOWN

In 1854 Adam Rankin Johnson, a twenty-year-old from Kentucky settled in Burnet County on the edge of the western frontier. He fought Indians, which could be expected since he worked as a surveyor and Indians believed the surveyor’s compass was the instrument that

Adam Rankin Johnson (1834-1922)

was pushing them off the land. In 1854, Johnson stood on the banks of the Colorado River and a dream…

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A Union soldier pretending to fire a Quaker gun with a stick which was part of captured Confederate fortifications, Centreville, 1862. Animated stereoscopic photograph.

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