Miss
Vicky is a replica of a Vicksburg 3inch bronze gun. These
guns were cast in Vicksburg, Mississippi by A. B. Reading and
Bro. Four of these cannons still exist today. A fifth tube,
located in Knoxville, Iowa was donated to the World War scrap
drive in the 1940's. Three of these tubes are located at "Petersburg
National Battlefield" and one in Nevada, Iowa. The guns
were 61 inches long and base rings with a 10.4 inch diameter.
All tubes
were rifled with six sawtooth grooves of left-hand twist.
Miss
Vicky's measurements were taken from one of the tubes at "Petersburg
National Battlefield". The tube in 
question was stamped "No. 3".
Miss Vicky's tube was cast from cold roll steel in Rocky Mount,
North Carolina, painted black and is a smooth bore. These
are probably the only differences between the original gun
and Miss Vicky. The carriage was built by "Steen Cannon
and Ordnance Works" in Ashland, Kentucky and the wheels
were built by the Amish in Pennsylvania.
Information
and pictures of the original gun taken from "Field Weapons
of the Civil War: Revised Edition"
by James C. Hazlett, Edwin Olmstead and M. Hume Parks
University
of Illinois Press
