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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:23 am 
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Local guy is putting together a cannon for the Starkville museum. Thought you have some interest in this. With your connections, maybe you could spread it around or something. :)

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An addition to the Starkville Civil War Arsenal building sits virtually empty, with only construction materials scattered throughout the space that is scheduled to be finished this week.

Duffy Neubauer, the arsenal's owner and curator, already has the large new room filled in his mind.

He's acquired four fiberglass mannequin horses he plans to hook to a limber wagon carrying a cannon. Neubauer has five of the latter to choose from -- three American Civil War-era cannons most likely used in battle and true-to-specs replicas of two others -- sitting idle in other parts of his four-room arsenal.

The new exhibit, he believes, will "really give you the feel of what these carriages are all about."

"Without the horses to pull them," Neubauer added, pointing toward the cannons and carriages in an adjacent room, "all this stuff would be nothing but yard ornaments."

But to make Neubauer's developing addition complete to his liking, there's something specific he wants that he doesn't have -- at least not yet.

"I would love to hook it to a Howitzer," said Neubauer, 67, a retired facilities manager at Humphrey Coliseum on the Mississippi State University campus. "I know it's a long shot."

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:08 pm 
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That was a good article Gene thank you for sharing.
I went to a civil war museum in Kennesaw. they we such young children fighting. Seeing all the different rifles no matching parts among them. had to be crafted if broken while fighting.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:24 am 
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Thanks for thinking about me.
I saw this article somewhere else yesterday.
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