Civil War:

WEAPONS & TACTICS

Issue Two: The Artillery

Civil War: Weapons & Tactics

Volume One, Number Two

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Contents
Battery B, First NY ..........Front cover
Battery B, First New York ...............3
Battery M, Second US .....................4
Gibson’s Batteries, Second US ........5
Officers of the 17th New York........6
Wiard guns & General Sickles .......7
Twelve-pound howitzer..................8
First Connecticut gun crews ..........9
20-pound Parrott rifled guns........10
Brass mountain howitzers ............11
Battery fording a tributary............12
Company H, 3rd Massachusetts...13
Battery at drill...............................14
Officers at Culpeper, Virginia.......15
Company F, Second New York .....16
Battery of the 17th New York.......17
Company K, Second New York ....18
Officer, US Horse Artillery............19
Battery B, First NY............Back cover

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Captain Rufus D. Pettit's Battery B of the First New York Light Artillery at Fort Richardson
near Fair Oaks, Virginia (date unknown).

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Battery M of the Second United States Artillery, near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June of 1862.

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Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries of the Second United States Artillery,

near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June of 1862

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Officers of the Seventeenth New York Battery near Washington, the District of Columbia
in June of 1863.

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Two Wiard guns at the Arsenal in Washington, the District of Columbia in 1862.
General Daniel E. Sickles stands beside the cannon.

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Twelve-pound howitzer captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House

in Virginia on 27 May 1862.

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First Connecticut Artillery gun crews drilling at Fort Richardson

in the defenses of Washington near Arlington, Virginia (date iunknown).
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Twenty-pound Parrott rifled guns of the First New York Battery

near Richmond, Virginia in June of 1862.

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Confederate brass mountain howitzers (location and date unknown).

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Federal battery fording a tributary of the Rappahannock, on the day of the battle of
Second Bull Run/Manassas in August of 1862.

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Gun crews of Company H of the Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at Fort Lincoln
in the defenses of Washington, the District of Columbia in 1865.

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Battery at drill at Ringgold, Georgia (date unknown).

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Officers with gun at artillery headquarters at Culpeper, Virginia in September of 1863.

Left to right: Lieutenant Samuel S. Elder (Fourth U.S. Artillery, Battery E),
Lieutenant Alanson M. Randol (First US Artillery, Battery E & G), Lieutenant C.K. Warner,
Lieutenant Alex C.M. Pennington (Second US Artillery, Battery M),
Lieutenant Rufus King, Jr. (Fourth US Artillery, Battery A),
Lieutenant T. Riley, Lieutenant H. B. Read.

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Company F of the Second New York Artillery at Fort C.F. Smith near Arlington, Virginia
in August of 1865.

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A battery of the Seventeenth New York Artillery, with horses harnessed to the guns,
near Washington, the District of Columbia in June of 1863.

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Gun crew of Company K of the Second New York Artillery in Fort C.F. Smith
near Arlington, Virginia in August of 1865.

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Officers of the US Horse Artillery Brigade, commanded by Captain James M. Robertson,

at Culpeper, Virginia (date unknown).

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