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https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=85778
An addition to the Starkville Civil War Arsenal building sits virtually empty, with only construction materials scattered throughout the space that is scheduled to be finished this week.
Duffy Neubauer, the arsenal's owner and curator, already has the large new room filled in his mind.
He's acquired four fiberglass mannequin horses he plans to hook to a limber wagon carrying a cannon. Neubauer has five of the latter to choose from -- three American Civil War-era cannons most likely used in battle and true-to-specs replicas of two others -- sitting idle in other parts of his four-room arsenal.
The new exhibit, he believes, will "really give you the feel of what these carriages are all about."
"Without the horses to pull them," Neubauer added, pointing toward the cannons and carriages in an adjacent room, "all this stuff would be nothing but yard ornaments."
But to make Neubauer's developing addition complete to his liking, there's something specific he wants that he doesn't have -- at least not yet.
"I would love to hook it to a Howitzer," said Neubauer, 67, a retired facilities manager at Humphrey Coliseum on the Mississippi State University campus. "I know it's a long shot."