When General Longstreet tells Harrison what will happen during Pickett's Charge, he says artillery canister fire consists of bits of shrapnel. At the time, canister and shrapnel were two completely different things, and Longstreet would not have confused them. Canister is a bag or tin of lead balls which, when fired from a cannon, act like projectiles from a large shotgun. Shrapnel is smaller balls packed into an explosive shell which are scattered when the shell explodes.
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