Index of Civil War Artillery Posts
Please follow the links below to pages dedicated to each category. These are a work in progress, as I continue to explore and discuss the artillery used in the Civil War.
Smoothbore Field Artillery
Rifled Field Artillery
Heavy Cannons (Siege and Garrison, Seacoast)
Naval Cannons
Other Artillery Topics
Federal Field Artillery Production notes
Federal heavy gun production was under expectations mid-1864. This was at a time when Federal officers were urging more guns to fill the established forts in the north, others for Pensacola, and enlarged batteries in California.
Barbette and Casemate carriages
The Role of Field Artillery on the Battlefield
Gunpowder – Composition and testing
Long Tom: Attempts to track the fate of the famous Parrott 30-pdr.
Ratio of guns and changes in the tactical equations – guns per 1000 infantry? Or per 1000 yards of line? (Somewhat a rebuttal of Patty Griffith)
Henry Hunt on artillery use:
Suggestions to improve cannister
Concerns about mixing different rifled sells
Preferences for the 4.5-inch siege rifle
Suggestions about handling ammunition
Report on the use of artillery at Chancellorsville
Request to improve officer staffing in the artillery of the Army of the Potomac (of note, in other correspondence, Hunt felt the Horse Artillery was properly part of the Artillery Reserve)
Proposal to bring Heavy (foot) Artillery to support field batteries
Short range howitzers and siege howitzers – which Hunt did not like
Breakup of the Artillery Reserve, May 1864.
Artillery support for the Battle of the Crater
William F. Barry Organizes the AoP artillery, Summer 1861:
- Part 1: Overview
- Part 2: Ratio of guns
- Part 3: Types of guns
- Part 4: Composition of batteries
- Part 5: Battery assignments
- Part 6: Artillery Reserve
- Part 7: Ammunition
- Part 8: Siege Train
- Part 9: Drill and Training
- Part 10: Inspections
- Addendum: Barry on the organization of artillery for the Atlanta Campaign
Gunmakers
Ames Manufacturing Company or N.P. Ames
J.M. Eason & Brothers – Arms buildup at Charleston in 1863, Ripley-Childs Affair, Replenishing stocks after the Ironclad Attack
John Clark of New Orleans
Noble Brothers – Arguments with Confederate authorities.
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