Sick as a Parrott

Early in Burnished Rows of Steel, we are informed that Parrott has taken up a field command (commissioned in December 1861). He is heavily involved with the battle of Rouses Point, and subsequently remains running field and siege artillery with the main Union armies at least up to the end of the TL.




Which makes it especially odd that he seems to also have developed his rifles, much as in OTL. The 8 inch rifle shows up roughly on the OTL schedule, if not faster (in spite of the first one being cast in March 1862, at which point Parrott himself has spent the last few months at Lake Champlain instead of West Point) and 10 inch Parrott rifles also make an appearance during the Siege of Quebec.