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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/11/2016 6:48:23 am PDT

re: #62 Decatur Deb

A ball fired by his horse artillery is still lodged in a pharmacy wall in Elizabethtown. His gunners missed the whole Hardin County courthouse at a range of 1000 meters.

1000 meters was about the limit of the effective range of Civil War artillery.