The Standard
Clarksville, Tx
July 27, 1861
One of the 6-pounder cannon, cast at the Camden Foundry, was taken to the Sulphur Spring on the 4th, and experiments tried, which proved in every respect satisfactory. Several shots were fired with ball, and the results exceeded all that had been claimed for the piece by its most sanguine friends. The ground was unfavorable for trying how far it would shoot, but enough was shown, to prove that if an opportunity offered, it could knock one of old Abe’s regiments into “pi,”1 at a distance of 1000 yards. There no longer exists a doubt of the Camden Foundry Company being able to manufacture cannon of superior quality.–Camden Herald.
1 The term “pi” is a printing term. “…the pi is made up of small pieces of metal…, called type; and when they are set up in the form, and some careless loafer runs against and upsets things, they say it is knocked into pi!” — from Caskey’s Book: Lectures on Great Subjects, Selected from the Numerous Efforts of that Powerful Orator and Nobel Veteran of the Cross; page 275; Thomas W. Caskey, George Gatewood Mullins, John Burns Publishing Company, 1884