Comment "Quaker guns" (Score 5, Interesting) 197
The Confederates did something like this in the early days of the US Civil War--they painted logs to look like cannons, and they often succeeded in fooling Union surveillance. Why "Quaker" guns? Because the Quakers were (and are) avowed pacifists (except for the one who was elected President of the US).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun