Show the swamp aneel the swamp aipel was an 8 inch parrott rifled gun mounted by the federal troops in a morass on morris island charleston harbor in 1863 on ang 23 and 23 the city of charleston five and a half miles distant was shelled the ann bursting at the thirty sixth shot after the war the swamp aipel was sold for old metal and conveyed to trenten Tren tun but having been identified it was set up on a granite pedestal at the corner of perry and clinton streets in that city detroit free press |