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cannonmn
07-25-2010, 12:28 PM
There's an online article, linked to this page, from the Summer 1988 issue of THE ARTILLERYMAN:

http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita ... /read/9207 (http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita8/cmh/member/member.cgi/read/9207)

Eggman
07-25-2010, 06:08 PM
On display at Petersburg battlefield park not far from the Crater.

cannonmn
07-25-2010, 06:21 PM
Thanks, yes Petersburg has a 13-inch mortar, or something that resembles one, but last time I checked (ca. 1985) it wasn't "The Dictator" that fired from the Union side during the Civil War.