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So, it worked?
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Which isn't necessarily an issue if your goal is to hit somewhere in a line of charging infantry. Why you wouldn't just use canister shot is beyond me, but accuracy isn't much of an issue if your target is an entire enemy formation.
It's an issue if you need the chain to be stretched across parallel to the side by side group of soldiers charging at you.
I don't think you realize how much they missed by:
"On its second firing, the chain shot across the horizon and into a thicket of pine."
So, you'd miss the entire army you were shooting at, and hit a nearby forest.
Hey, it hit what was in front of it. The solution to the being "randomly inaccurate" problem is more of them!
Solution: aim the Gilleland cannon at what you don't want to hit, then fire!
Unless one barrel misfires, then it hits whatever is standing next to it.
The key to victory is surprise. So. Surprise.
Poor cow
That's, like, the joke.
The cow was a yankee sympathizer.
Moo!
The inventor seemed to think so.
The wikipedia article about it.
Yeah well he was a confederate so who gives a fuck what he thinks?
Not as intended.
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