Confederate

Harding-Parrott, Sub-pattern V

 

DIAMETER: 5.7 inches
GUN: Rifled 24-pounder Smoothbore, 5.82-inch Caliber
LENGTH: 12 1/4 inches
WEIGHT: About 50 pounds
CONSTRUCTION: Probably Common Shell
SABOT: Copper Ring
FUZING: Missing

This unfired specimen does not have the fuze hole finished.  Probably captured at the Charleston Arsenal, South Carolina.  It is of crude workmanship and has a single bourrelet as a bearing surface.