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Shepherd’s Battery, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end. A 10-inch Columbiad was at Shepherd’s, and this old smoothbore fired a 130-pound round ball 3 miles. The battery’s interior may have appeared with stacked ammunition. Another gun had once been a 32-pounder smoothbore, but it was rifled and banded to fire a 60-pound projectile 5 miles with greater accuracy.
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