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Jennifer Jensen

Don Volsch with his Civil War 6-pound cannon. He traded with another collector for the barrel and then collected and built the rest of the parts for the field gun, which took him three months to assemble.

Civil War cannon

By JENNIFER JENSEN
jjensen@thewakullanews.net

After 10 years of collecting parts and 3 months of putting them all together, Don Volsch, of Crawfordville, can finally cross an item off his bucket list.

Volsch built a No. 1 Civil War field carriage with a 6-pound cannon and started the project with only a gun barrel.

"I have always loved things that put out smoke and flames and go boom," Volsch says.