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DescriptionRupturedSwampAngelBattery1863.jpg	The 8 inch, 200 pdr Parrott rifle known as "The Swamp Angel" ruptured on its 36th discharge throwing the barrel onto the earthworks, August 23 1863. The first sixteen charges were incendisry rounds filled with "Greek fire" and fired into the heart of downtown Charleston. p. 116.
Date	published 1911
Source	The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Five, Forts and Artillery. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911.
Author	Berean Hunter

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