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Designed and built by Lt. John Dahlgren at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D.C., in 1850, this nine-inch gun weighed approximately 9,000 pounds and could fire a projectile weighing 150 pounds. It was used throughout the Civil War by the North and for some years afterward as a principal armament of American naval power, chiefly serving as a deck gun on Plymouth-class sloop-of-war vessels.
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