| Summary: | Color print view of the old Hot Shot Furnace At Fort Morgan, AL. These furnaces were used during war to heat the cannon balls until they turned cherry-red or white hot, then placed in the cannons and fired. A red hot shot would retain sufficient heat to set fire to wood even after strucking water several times. Only remnants of the furnace remain today. Divided back postcard.Printed on front: 'Old Hot Shot Furnance at Fort Morgan, AL., 8B-H710.' Printed on back: 'This is the old Hot Shot Furnace at Fort Morgan, Alabama which was used to heat cannon balls red hot for the purpose of sinking the enemy's ships before the day of high explosives. It repulsed an attack by British warships in 1814, sinking the Flagship "Hermes" . It was installed under James Madison's administration by a French General Simon Bernard, who had experience with hot sho furnaces under Napoleon. It rests in the middle of the little original Dort built by the Spanish in the middle of the 16th century with ten old gun mounts still intact. The oldest Fort in America. By Hatchett Chandler. Carter's News Agency, Mobile, Ala. Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C. T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)'
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