Guess who
Posted 08-10-2008 at 08:29 AM by Paul T
Ok IFL and Jimkin Who is this famous
sawbones in my avatar?
sawbones in my avatar?
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Hmmmmm, a sawbone you say...
At first I figured Dr. Mudd but I dont think he was a soldier.
O.k., I admit Im stumped.....Posted 08-10-2008 at 09:31 AM by iflylow74
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I shall give you a good hint...Ironclads relied on his inventions.Posted 08-10-2008 at 10:46 AM by Paul T - Second hint. Not a soldier.Posted 08-10-2008 at 10:48 AM by Paul T
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invented the Gatling gun ?Posted 08-10-2008 at 11:19 AM by knightRider - No Dr. Gatlin wasnt military. This gentleman is Dr. John A. Dalghren who invented the Dalghren gun. A rifles cannon that was sighted and had a super re-enforced breech even though they were muzzle loading and were used extensively for naval and iron clad warfare. He later as was thought to have a hand in the hide away carriage shore guns used to defend forts that were on the coastline.Posted 08-10-2008 at 03:04 PM by Paul T
- see i was the closest any way !Posted 08-10-2008 at 04:39 PM by knightRider
- If he wasn't a soldier, then why the uniform>
Huh?
Huh?
Posted 08-10-2008 at 05:04 PM by iflylow74 - He was a naval officer.Posted 08-10-2008 at 07:47 PM by Paul T
- Both Gatlin and Dalghren were medical doctors.Only Dalghren was military an Anapolis grad I suppose.Posted 08-10-2008 at 07:50 PM by Paul T
- Too bad he's just a yankee though.Posted 08-10-2008 at 07:52 PM by iflylow74
- Had to learn about him in Naval history class in boot. But hey it dont matter how much a yankee he was my roots are from Pulaski Tn.
Since 1784....Now there is some history here
if you got a week.Posted 08-10-2008 at 08:11 PM by Paul T - Haha just kidding there Paul. My family is also from Tn. originally.
So he is an ancestor of yours?Posted 08-10-2008 at 08:23 PM by iflylow74 -
Dang it! I knew who it was, but I just saw this blog today! Grrr! I really didn't know until you threw out the Ironclads reference, but still...
Good choice!Posted 08-10-2008 at 08:40 PM by USAF_462/2W1X1 - Yea well thats how it goes some times.
Ill see if I can find another onefor you to ponder over sometime today. No he wasnt a
ancestor of mine but I do have one that was hanged by the brits because of his involvement with Francis Bacon then his orphaned boys were raised by G.W. s Father and one of them went with Simon Kenton to
Kentucky then on to Tenn. I was told.
The other two wen farther south to the Carolinas and on went to live with the Cherokee there and the other the Seminole
in Fla.Posted 08-11-2008 at 06:49 AM by Paul T -
Nice! I wish I hadn't been AWOL, I knew who he was, from all the history books I read, thru the years. There's still some of his guns, at Fort Point, in San Francisco, til the mayor decides to get rid of them, for glorifying the Civil War!Posted 08-11-2008 at 08:47 AM by Seabeescotty
