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During the Civil War, the 24-pounder howitzer was not frequently employed by batteries of Union field artillery because it was relatively heavy and had a shorter range compared to the 12-pounder Napoleon's 1,619 yd (1,480 m) range at 5° elevation. Nevertheless, Confederates favored the 24-pounder howitzer for its hitting power and accuracy. [17]
With the exception of the Far Western theatre of the war (e.g. Halls Battery at the Battle of Valverde in New Mexico), Federals did not use 24-pounder howitzers in field. [12] The 24- and 32-pounders were more widely used in fixed fortifications, but at least one of the later large weapons was with the 1st Connecticut Artillery as late as 1864 ...
Model 1839 siege gun in travelling position with limber.. Prior to the war, the U.S. Army had a variety of iron smoothbore siege guns (12-pounders, 18-pounders and 24-pounders) and howitzers (24-pounder and 8-inch) (Gibbon 1863, pp. 54–59).
The gun barrel in the foreground with the twin handles is the U.S. Model 1841 24-pounder howitzer which was used by the Madison Light artillery starting in 1862. At the Battle of Gettysburg on 1–3 July 1863, the Madison Light Artillery was armed with four 24-pounder howitzers. [2]
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.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
The United States is crumbling in Alex Garland’s sharp new film “ Civil War, ” a bellowing and haunting big screen experience. Garland, the writer-director of films like “Annihilation ...
The M1841 mountain howitzer was a mountain gun used by the United States Army during the mid-nineteenth century, from 1837 to about 1870. It saw service during the Mexican–American War of 1847–1848, the American Indian Wars , and during the American Civil War , 1861–1865 (primarily in the more rugged western theaters ).