Quaker gun

I just hope he's never heard of Quaker guns."

This is called the "Quaker Gun Trick" worked quite effectively.

They set up dummy Quaker Guns along the defensive earthworks.

One notable example are Quaker Guns.

The original "Quaker Gun trick"

Quaker guns were used by both the Northern and Southern sides in the American Civil War.

A Quaker Gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker Gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy.

Both sides of the American Civil War used such faked weapons, called Quaker Guns.

The Union Army, to its extreme embarrassment, discovered the fearsome-looking cannon to be "Quaker guns" - logs painted black.

Quaker Guns (Wave Books, 2008)

During the American Civil War, Quaker guns were also used by the Confederates, to compensate for their shortage of artillery.

When the public heard about the Galena, it was yet another enormous embarrassment, comparable to the Quaker Guns at Manassas.

Quaker Gun trick, a simulated cannon made from a wooden log, sometimes painted black, used to deceive an enemy into believing a foe possesses excess guns.

Discovering only empty works and Quaker gun in the abandoned fortifications on May 3, McClellan sent his cavalry troops racing after the escaping confederates.

Unlike a Quaker gun, a wooden cannon is a functional weapon, albeit notoriously weak and only able to fire a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting.

She is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Quaker Guns (Wave Books, 2008), and forthcoming, Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010).

On Fort Craig's massive gravel bastions were mounted "Quaker guns" (fake wooden cannons) with empty soldiers' caps alongside the real cannons and real Union troops.

The hull of Young Teazer, gutted but still partially afloat, was surrounded by floating bodies and wreckage, including her alligator figurehead and several Quaker guns - fake wooden cannons.

The "Quaker gun trick" was used by Colonel William Washington's Continentals, during the American Revolutionary War; in 1780, approximately 100 Loyalists surrendered to them, rather than face bombardment.

The 11th New York expected to first engage Confederates at Fairfax Court House on July 17, only to find that they had pulled back towards Centreville, leaving Quaker Guns in their place.

However, McClellan came under extreme criticism from the press and the Congress when it was found that Johnston's forces had not only slipped away unnoticed, but had for months fooled the Union Army through the use of Quaker Guns.

Prior to crossing, Johnson strategically placed two "Quaker Guns", actually made of stovepipes, charred logs, and the axles and wheels from a broken wagon, on hills that had a view of Newburgh, and vice versa.

At Rugeley's Mill, Washington with 60 troops bluffed 112 Loyalists into surrendering a strongly fortified homestead without firing a shot by use of a "Quaker Gun", mounting a felled tree trunk on wagon axles to resemble a cannon.

Quaker Guns were also used to bolster numerous Confederate fortifications during the Siege of Petersburg and greatly assisted in lengthening the amount of time the Confederates were able to hold their positions against the overwhelmingly superior and overbearing Union troops.