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 ====== USS Hartford Cannon ======
+[{{ :kosinski-cannonussconstitution-ca_1953.jpg?400|One cannon, about 1953. Photo Credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35003315|Trinity College Archives.]]}}]
-[{{ cannons.png?400|The first of two //USS Hartford// Cannon on the main quad. The second cannon can be seen in the far-right background. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}]
+[{{ cannons.png?400|One of two //USS Hartford// Cannon on the main quad, 2022. The second cannon can be seen in the far-right background. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}]
 Trinity College President [[funston_g._keith|G. Keith Funston '32]] acquired two cannon ((NOTE: the plural of 'cannon' is 'cannon')) from the 1858 Union steamship //USS Hartford// for the Trinity [[summit_campus|campus]] in 1950.
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 The cannon carriages bear plaques commemorating the 105 Trinity alumni who fought in the Civil War. 79 fought for the Union and 26 for the Confederacy; 12 gave their lives for the Union and 6 for the Confederacy.
-At about 10 p.m. on September 11, 1951, the cannon were fired, disturbing the Hartford community with tremors and noise. When detectives arrived to investigate, students stated that they had done it "in honor of the resumption of classes, soon to take place." A story later circulated that the students had filled the cannon with blasting caps, nuts, bolts, and silverware in an effort to dismantle the [[memorial_field_house|Memorial Field House]]. Richard A. Freytag wrote in 1955 that "the administration, feeling that although the cannon had once helped smash the Confederacy, they should not be used by the Trinity student body to help smash the campus, promptly plugged the cannon with cement." ((The Trinity Tatler, Spring 1955))
+At various times between 1950 and 1951, "[[pranks|prankish]] students" fired the cannon, disturbing the Hartford community with tremors and noise. In 1951, College administration stated that the cannon would be "jammed in such a way they won't be able to be fired again." ((Hartford Courant, 09/07/1951)) Only a few days later, Hartford was once again disrupted with "mysterious explosions" that shook their windows. When detectives arrived to investigate, the students explained that they had filled the cannon with blasting caps, nuts, bolts, and silverware in order to celebrate the new semester starting. A story later circulated that the students were actually attempting to take down the [[memorial_field_house|Memorial Field House]]. Richard A. Freytag wrote in 1955 that "the administration, feeling that although the cannon had once helped smash the Confederacy, they should not be used by the Trinity student body to help smash the campus." ((The Trinity Tatler, Spring 1955)) As promised, the administration promptly plugged the cannon with cement.
 In 1994, the Navy League borrowed and refurbished the cannon to mount on authentically designed carriages for display in Groton, Connecticut to celebrate the second //USS Hartford//, an attack submarine. While the original carriages were made of white oak, the Navy League used red oak, and the carriages needed replacing by 2006. Under the direction of Mike Roraback, construction trades foreman with the Trinity buildings and grounds department, the carriages were rebuilt and improved using white oak as in the original carriages.
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 (2021) by the Student Government Association.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=trinslavery|Confederate Symbolism at Trinity College]] (2019) by Tyler Hartmeyer '19.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.39166763|Confederate Symbolism at Trinity College]] (2019) by Tyler Hartmeyer '19.
 [[https://www.proquest.com/hartfordcourant/docview/257078707/B937EF15A5AC4EC1PQ/1?accountid=14405|"Bringing Back the Big Guns." The Hartford Courant]], 11/15/2006.