During the Civil War, the Army sent four cannons to Oregon, one of them to Jacksonville. It never fired in a war, but figured often at Fourth of July celebrations in Jacksonville, Ore., and the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of Civil War Veterans, took it to their annual encampments.

As It Was: Vandals Fire Civil War Cannon Downtown

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