File:The Great Floyd Gun, cast at the Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh.png

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The Rodman Gun (better known as the Floyd Gun).

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English: The Great Floyd Gun, cast at the Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburg, Pa., on the 18th of January, 1860—the largest piece of ordnance in the world.

The Rodman Gun (better known as the Floyd Gun), was 15 inches in the base, and the Union gun only 12 inches... Reference
New York Times article - The Great Floyd Gun
Rodman type: M. 1861 15-inch

Eplanation on why the name of the gun was changed from Floyd to Lincoln]
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Source Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, February 25, 1860 (https://archive.org/stream/franklesliesillu00lesl#page/n118/mode/1up)
Author Unknown engraver

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This work was published before January 1, 1929 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or fewer since publication.

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