Union Captain John Tidball, head of Battery A, Second Artillery, ordered it played for the burial of a
cannoneer killed in action.
He fought in the war as a British sailor and
cannoneer for six years before he was seriously wounded during an engagement with a Dutch vessel.
The proviso on the copyright page of Tales reminds us that "The events and people described herein are fictitious"; however, this romp of a memoir takes place around the time that the critic Seymour Krim, in Views of a Nearsighted
Cannoneer (1961), argued that novels "show a closer, more realistic, more explicitly truthful and personal view of existence" while "real life" veers toward fiction.
Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the
cannoneer without, The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth, 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.
Bill was a member of the "Greatest Generation" as he served during World War II in the 196th Artillery Field Unit of the United States Army as a
cannoneer at the age of 19.
THAT EXPLAINS WHY YOUR
CANNONEER IS A ONE-ARMED MAN.
Surveying the terrain with a common-sense eye - and subtracting in my mind the modern houses and landscaping - I couldn't help but wonder at the folly of the repeated Union charges, which caused one Confederate
cannoneer to famously remark, "A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it.
Streeter was wounded in France while serving as a
cannoneer with the Army's 89th Division, 340th Field Artillery.
Streeter was wounded in France while serving as a
cannoneer with the US Army's 89th Division, 340th Field Artillery.
Frostfire Ridge: Iron Horde Scraps are not dropped by Iron
Cannoneers anymore.
We follow the conflict in Georgia from 1780 (when 17-year-old William Hunter joins the
Cannoneers under Sergeant Ash) to his dramatic escape.