Big Gun

The Big Gun was a Parrot 30-Pound rifled cannon. Over eleven feet long, it weighed almost nine thousand pounds and could hurl a 4.2 inch shell more than two miles. Despite its great size and weight, the Yankees were moving the Big Gun from place to place across the Arkansas battle-front. No Confederate field artillery piece could match its range. It flung death and destruction accurately from far beyond their reach. General Ole Devil Hardin knew that the Big Gun must be destroyed, but it would take a man of courage to do it. The officer he selected for the mission was young. Promoted in the field, he was commanding the roughest, toughest, most ornery fighting Company in the Texas Light Cavalry, Captain Dusty Fog...