Pilgrims and Pioneers: Civil War Tools

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Civil War Tools

These tools were on display at the re-enactment.

The three cylinders in the back row are cannon artillery. The shiny gold object near the center is a device used for measuring the diameter of the artillery to make sure it woild fit inside the cannon as all cannons were not the same size- it was also able to be opened up and extended to be a 12 inch ruler.