{"id":27722,"date":"2025-09-02T07:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/live-firing-a-civil-war-m1861-8-in-light-mortar-at-ft-shenandoah\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:18:17","slug":"live-firing-a-civil-war-m1861-8-in-light-mortar-at-ft-shenandoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/live-firing-a-civil-war-m1861-8-in-light-mortar-at-ft-shenandoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Live firing a civil war M1861 8-in. light mortar at Ft. Shenandoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nMz8nrMw68?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This was a really important bucket list item for me. Las week I had a chance to participate at the NSSA Gator Skirmish at Fort Shenandoah, Virgina. This was a very satisfying day. In the following video I&#8217;ll share the secrets of shooting such a large piece of black powder burning thingy thanks to Tim Scanlan from the NSSA team of 1st MD Cavalry.<br \/>Please support us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a> <br \/>History of Weapons and War platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#civilwar #mortar #artillery #skirmish #muzzleloading #blackpowder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a really important bucket list item for me. Las week I had a chance to participate at the NSSA Gator Skirmish at Fort Shenandoah, Virgina. This was a very satisfying day. In the following video I&#8217;ll share the secrets of shooting such a large piece of black powder burning thingy thanks to Tim&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/live-firing-a-civil-war-m1861-8-in-light-mortar-at-ft-shenandoah\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live firing a civil war M1861 8-in. light mortar at Ft. Shenandoah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}