In the entrance of the Rhode Island state house there is a cannon with a cannonball stuck in its muzzle. And for 100 years, no one checked to see if that cannon was filled with explosive gunpowder.
To Visit: Rhode Island State House | 82 Smith St, Providence, RI 02903
Episode Source Material:
- Our Story: The Lives and Legacy of Those Who Served in Battery B First Rhode Island Light Artillery
- On the Gettysburg anniversary, a cannon in R.I. has a story to tell
- First Floor - Rhode Island - Nellie M. Gorbea
- The Gettysburg Gun
- Civil War monument to Battery B 1st Rhode Island Artillery at Gettysburg
- Battle of Gettysburg - Wikipedia
- Pickett's Charge Facts
- Artillery in the Civil War
- 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery B
- William Jones, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery – Killed at Gettysburg