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
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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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