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|image=Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights.jpg
|size=380
|title=Quaker guns
|texttitle=Quaker guns
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Quaker guns in former Confederate fortifications at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in March 1862. Quaker guns were widely used as a deception tactic in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black. The name derives from the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, who have traditionally held a religious opposition to war and violence in the Peace Testimony.
|credit=Photograph: George N. Barnard and James F. Gibson; restoration: Adam Cuerden