The method used by the Ordnance Department for designating and tracking returns from Pennsylvania’s independent batteries leaves a lot to be desired. In their defense, the state did not aid their administrative endeavors with simple unit designations. The way I organize these units, in my mind at least, involves recognizing there were “Independent Batteries” whichContinue reading “Summary Statement, 1st Quarter, 1863 – Pennsylvania’s Independent Batteries”
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Bells into Guns: Tredegar’s Bronze 6-pdrs
When discussing the long production run of the Model 1841 6-pdr, I mentioned Confederate manufacture of the type. At least six vendors produced 6-pdrs using the Model 1841 pattern for Confederate orders. As with Federal manufacture, the production of the type ebbed and then ceased by mid-war. Tredegar Foundry, in Richmond, produced just short ofContinue reading “Bells into Guns: Tredegar’s Bronze 6-pdrs”