At the request of General W.T. Sherman, the War Department presented this 1861 2.9 inch Parrott Rifle to the Ben Butterfield Post of the Grand Army of the Republic circa 1882. Reportedly, the gun saw action at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. It was restored from 2009 to 2011 by the Wm. McKinley Camp 21, SUVCW for the people of Fairfield County, in memory of W.T. Sherman and the more than 3,000 Fairfield County citizens who served in the Civil War.