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  2. Field artillery in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the artillery branch to support infantry and cavalry forces in the field. It does not include siege artillery , use of artillery in fixed fortifications, coastal or naval artillery .

  3. Siege artillery in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Civil War was the first major war to see the use of rifled artillery. Rifling gave the guns greater velocity, range, accuracy, and penetrating power, making smoothbore siege guns obsolete. Rifling gave the guns greater velocity, range, accuracy, and penetrating power, making smoothbore siege guns obsolete.

  4. 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery Regiment - Wikipedia

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    1st Regiment Indiana Heavy Artillery was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed the "Jackass Regiment". Before being converted into an artillery unit in 1863, it served as the 21st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

  5. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Heavy artillery during the Civil War consisted of siege artillery, garrison artillery, and coastal artillery. Siege and garrison artillery were larger versions of field artillery, mounted on heavyweight carriages which allowed them very limited mobility: the M1839 24-pounder smoothbore was the largest one which could still be moved by road.

  6. New York Rocket Battalion - Wikipedia

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    The Rocket Battalion of Artillery (General Barry's), better known as the New York Rocket Battalion was an artillery battalion organized in the state of New York for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

  7. Douglas's Texas Battery - Wikipedia

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    Lieut. Alf Davis, 1861. Douglas's Texas Battery (also known as the Good-Douglas Texas Battery or Dallas Light Artillery Battery) was an artillery battery that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

  8. 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment - Wikipedia

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    3rd PA Heavy Artillery is represented today by a group of Civil War living history reenactors, based in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, that represents Battery B. The unit operates as a light artillery unit, as Battery H did at Gettysburg.

  9. Bomb squad destroys Civil War artillery shell found in park - AOL

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    PRAIRIE GROVE (KFSM) – A Civil War artillery shell that was found earlier this month near the Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park has been destroyed, but museum officials said that wasn't the ...