Artillery Fuses of the Civil War
Author : Charles H. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fuzes (Ordnance)
ISBN : 9780967073149
Author : Charles H. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fuzes (Ordnance)
ISBN : 9780967073149
Author : Edward B. McCaul, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786446131
The rifled artillery used during the Civil War created the need for a new and more reliable type of artillery fuze to light powder charges. This history explains how mechanically ignited fuzes were developed to improve accuracy, distance, and power of weaponry, and how the technical and manufacturing challenges of mating gunpowder and metal were met.
Author : Dean S. Thomas
Publisher : Thomas Publications (PA)
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jack Bell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1574411632
The most up-to-date and definitive reference guide on Union and Confederate large caliber projectiles, torpedoes, and mines, profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 photographs of 360 specimens.
Author : Robert Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Artillery
ISBN : 1300066644
"In 1861, it was a blast of artillery aimed at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor which started four years of the most horrendous period in American history. At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of April 12th, forty three Confederate cannons opened up on the fortress. Miraculously, no one on either side had been killed or seriously wounded - a battle conclusion with these results would rarely happen again. The Confederacy had to struggle to place artillery and ammunition in the field. The Union had on hand 4,167 pieces of artillery, of which only 163 were field guns. When the rebels took over Federal arsenals in the south, they acquired a considerable amount of heavy guns, but only 35 much needed field pieces. Most of the country's powder mills were located in the North, and little ammunition had been made in the South for some fifty years. Starting almost from scratch, the South built some remarkably efficient mills and arsenals to meet the demands. Those four short years reshaped the military in many ways - the tactics of the artillery and how it was utilized is still being studied today. The artillery seldom received the grandeur of the cavalry and infantry, but it was those lethal iron projectiles which softened up the enemy to allow the charges and attacks. Take a trip through time beginning with the infancy of artillery during the American Revolution until the final shots were fired at Appomattox. Most of the major battles are visited, along with some lesser engagements, and the role that the artillery played regarding their outcome. With over 500 photographs, (many previously unpublished), the reader will get a real feel what it was like to serve with the artillery during the Civil War."--Back cover.
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807178675
The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed in a conflict fought in the Western Hemisphere. It was as sizable and powerful as any raised in prior European wars. Moreover, Union and Confederate artillery included the largest number of rifled pieces fielded in any conflagration in the world up to that point. Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Field Artillery is the first comprehensive general history of the artillery arm that supported infantry and cavalry in the conflict. Based on deep and expansive research, it serves as an exhaustive examination with abundant new interpretations that reenvision the Civil War’s military. Hess explores the major factors that affected artillerists and their work, including the hardware, the organization of artillery power, relationships between artillery officers and other commanders, and the influence of environmental factors on battlefield effectiveness. He also examines the lives of artillerymen, the use of artillery horses, manpower replacement practices, effects of the widespread construction of field fortifications on artillery performance, and the problems of resupplying batteries in the field. In one of his numerous reevalutions, Hess suggests that the early war practice of dispersing guns and assigning them to infantry brigades or divisions did not inhibit the massing of artillery power on the battlefield, and that the concentration system employed during the latter half of the conflict failed to produce a greater concentration of guns. In another break with previous scholarship, he shows that the efficacy of fuzes to explode long-range ordnance proved a problem that neither side was able to resolve during the war. Indeed, cumulative data on the types of projectiles fired in battle show that commanders lessened their use of the new long-range exploding ordnance due to bad fuzes and instead increased their use of solid shot, the oldest artillery projectile in history.
Author : Philip Katcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782000941
Because of the length of the coastline of the United States, from the beginning American ordnance and engineers placed an emphasis on heavy artillery mounted in coastal defences. The Union army organised its 'Heavy Artillery' into separate regiments, uniformed and equipped differently. While the Field Artillery was assigned across the fighting fronts Heavy Artillery units served the big guns in the forts and the defences of Washington. The Confederates did not differentiate types of artillery and those that became known as Heavy Artillery did so through informal association rather than formal designation. This book details the development and usage of the big guns. New Vanguard 38 and 40 are also available in a single volume special edition as 'American Civil War Artillery 1861-65'.
Author : Philip M. Cole
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : History
ISBN :
This study of artillery at Gettysburg will influence the history of this crucial battle for years to come."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Philip Katcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 178200095X
Because of the length of the coastline of the United States, from the beginning American ordnance and engineers placed an emphasis on heavy artillery mounted in coastal defences. The Union army organised its 'Heavy Artillery' into separate regiments, uniformed and equipped differently. While the Field Artillery was assigned across the fighting fronts Heavy Artillery units served the big guns in the forts and the defences of Washington. The Confederates did not differentiate types of artillery and those that became known as Heavy Artillery did so through informal association rather than formal designation. This book details the development and usage of the big guns. New Vanguard 38 and 40 are also available in a single volume special edition as 'American Civil War Artillery 1861-65'.
Author : W. Reid McKee
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Projectiles
ISBN :