Conversations with a Curator: Ordnance with Chief Curator Grahame Long
Beginning in the 1850s, technological progressions of military ordnance had transformed traditional artillery. By the time of the Civil War, mere cannonballs were all but obsolete. Thanks to rifled artillery, massive exploding shells were capable of traveling several miles through the air. Each armed with impact and timed fuses, these shells proved to be, as one Union officer stated simply, “devastatingly effective” along the Charleston front. Confederate forces, in defense, employed cleverly designed river torpedoes and even an armor-piercing “Quinlivan” bolt capable of sinking enemy ironclads.
Date/Time
03/08/2019, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Location
The Charleston Museum
360 Meeting Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29403