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This rare Rodman cannon was cast in 1861 as a 10-inch smoothbore that fired round cannonballs. In 1884, to keep up with modern technology, the U.S. Army inserted an 8-inch rifled sleeve into the old cast-iron barrel because rifled guns had longer ranges than smoothbores. Steel later replaced cast iron, and the old guns were sold for scrap. The piece on the right is a smoothbore, and the piece on the left is part of a rifled bore.
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