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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 .
Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888 , Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran.
In the American Civil War, the siege train was always transported to the area of the siege by water. The siege trains of the Civil War consisted almost exclusively of guns and mortars. Guns fired projectiles on horizontal trajectory and could batter heavy construction with solid shot or shell at long or short range, destroy fort parapets, and ...
Edward Porter Alexander (May 26, 1835 – April 28, 1910) was an American military engineer, railroad executive, planter, and author. He served first as an officer in the United States Army and later, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), in the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general.
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 7th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, U.S. Volunteers was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment operated as both heavy artillery and infantry beginning in December 1862 while serving in the defenses of Washington, D.C., and continued in both capacities until the end of the war.
Bloody Banners and Barefoot Boys: A History of the 27th Regiment Alabama Infantry CSA : the Civil War memoirs and diary entries of J.P. Cannon, M.D.. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1997. Faust, James P. The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry: A Civil War History and Roster. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2015.
The 29th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2003. Bradt, Hiram H.G. History of the Services of the Third Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery in the Civil War of the United States, 1861-65. Berlin, Wisconsin: Courant Press, 1902.