Thanks Linda

Part of your reply is starting to answer one of my questions. That was when did Arkansas post become a National Monument? I am gathering that you are saying that happened in the 1960 if it wasn't on the national registry before that.

Anthony Rushing of this board a couple of years ago seemed to think he remembered an old photograph of two large artillery piece setting on the old State House Lawn. That one disappered and no one seems to know where it went.

I am wonder if this wasn't that second gun moved to Arkansas Post in 1920 and the moving of that gun, to mark the battle of Arkansas Post? Would that have been the reason why the last 6 surviving veterans of that Battle were there posing with the gun?

If Arkansas Post was only a State property at that time, were there any records kept? Was the Gun carried away during the 1927 flood just 7 years later which washed away most of Arkansas Post? Was there any recovery effort made to find that gun? Is it after 87 years still sitting in the Arkansas River?

If it is still there surely it would be under several feet of mud today. But I wouldn't think that something that heavy and shaped like a cannon barrel would wash very far downstream. I know water is a powerful force, but it has got to be able to get a purchase on the object before it can apply that hydrolic force to move that object.

Would this cannon barrel be something that the National Parks service and the corp of engineers would conduct a search for and maybe recover? After all they own it.

In any case it is an important piece of lost history to me.