Civil War for the day

"Very nice looking piece. Can you hit anything?" (I know, I know, wrong movie.) That's me in the foreground (in my stylish if totally non-regulation red gloves for handling the powder and shot just in case there's a misfire, which would be bad for the guy with his hands in front of the muzzle), with my gun crew (3-inch Parrott rifle, and an original tube at that) at Fort Clinch in Florida. They never made a summer uniform for the Union army, but Florida would have been a damn good place to have one; it's why I like to do a Confederate 'impression' at summertime reenactments.