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Subject:	Re: Definition of "case shot"
From:	Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:19:35 -0400
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Yes.  In the Union Army it was called "cannister:"  shot and other metal in
a canvass bag to be fired from a cannon at attacking industry.  It appears
to have had the effect of buckshot, but buckshot fired from a five inch wide
barrel.

Harold S. Forsythe
Golieb Fellow
NYU Law School
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Definition of "case shot"


> In my earlier message today I asked what a "case shot" was.  Just got the
> bright idea to check the dictionary:
>
> "a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel
> shell, for firing from a gun."
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