#quaker guns

[jn-ward-blog]

A detail from my zine, History of the South, vol. IV. This one’s about Quaker guns.

[julieschulerart]

During the Civil War both sides used Quaker Guns to frighten the enemy, logs mounted and painted to resemble cannons.

(picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_gun)

[chubachus]

A group of Union soldiers posing on captured Confederate fortifications in Centreville, Virginia, 1862. Animated stereoscopic photograph.

Source.

[civilwarmemories]

Quaker Guns: black-painted logs made to resemble large canons to make the enemy believe a fort was heavily guarded. It is understandable that Confederates had to resort to this tactic more often because of their lesser amount of factories and supplies.

(photograph is dated March, 1862) 

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[criminalwisdom]

That’s not a gun, it’s a log painted black. Both sides in the Civil War used “Quaker guns” to frighten the enemy in order to buy time. “We were confronted by a mammoth gun that threatened to blow the Union clear over the north pole,” remembered one Indiana volunteer in 1894. “The mammoth gun proved afterward to be a log that had been mounted and painted to resemble a columbiad.” (Futility Closet)