This Civil War cannon is a distinctive piece of Jackson County history. Its barrel is a Model-1861, Number 349, made in 1862 by the Phoenix Iron Company in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and marked with the initials TTSL for Union Army inspector Major Theodore T.S. Laidley, USA. Though used by the Union Army far from Jacksonport, it was acquired in the 1890s by the Tom Hindman Camp of the United Confederate Veterans in Newport from the Federal Government and brought to Jackson County. In the early 1900s it was moved to the Jackson County Courthouse and Jail in Newport, later stood outside the W.A. Billingsley Memorial Library for many years, and has been at Jacksonport State Park since 1978, when the Jackson County Historical Society moved it there. In 2001, its carriage was replaced with a replica built to the original specifications. Civil War cannon service required a Gunner, a corporal, and seven men using tools including a thumb stall, worm, sponge, rammer, priming wire, friction primer, and lanyard to clean the barrel, load the powder bag and projectile, set aim and range, and fire the piece safely and quickly. Common projectiles included shell, which burst into fragments, and case-shot, which scattered lead or iron balls when it exploded. From 1894 to 1900, the cannon was used annually in a sham battle reenactment on the White River at Elizabeth during Confederate veterans' reunions and was otherwise displayed at the old Newport Park on Front Street.