Tell me more! Coast Artillery ?

[atlantis]

Given the weight of coastal artillery how did they get them into position from foundry to a fortress gun position. Where they disassembled then reassembled at the firing position.

 

[JD Mayo]

Probably put them there them selves and got them from a arsenal near by. They had horses they could have pulled them with to as well to put them into the final positions in the forts.

 

[UCVRelics]

We have had some great threads on this subject.

Sling for transporting big g | Period Photos & Examinations

[Dutch Gap, Va., vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns]. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Between 1860 and 1865] SUMMARY Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. NOTES Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald...

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[JD Mayo]

Confederate Battery and Nelson Church in Yorktown. This is on the coastle area also.

 

[UCVRelics]

Some of the larger ones like the Rodman went by rail.

 

[JD Mayo]

Here is a full link about Yorktowns artillery in earthworks https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...AI#imgrc=Wl-UL1eqiA4Q1M&imgdii=0Vt-ugxFQ_3hWM

 

[redbob]

Some of the larger ones like the Rodman went by rail.
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A 20"er, the didn't come any larger and the 2 that still exist were placed to protect New York Harbor and that's where they remain today. The guns were mounted at their sites through the use of large "A" frame cranes.

 

[atlantis]

Thanks guys.

 

[John Hartwell]

More on sling carts:

A giant sling-cart to carry siege guns | Period Photos & Examinations

Dutch Gap Canal, Virginia. (Drewry's Bluff, James River) A giant sling-cart to carry siege guns. Reekie, John, photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [between 1862 and 1869] NOTES Title from Civil War caption books. Photographer: John Reekie. Confederate Sling_Cart to carry siege guns. Designed to...

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Sling cart used in removing the captured artillery | Period Photos & Examinations

Title: Sling cart used in removing the captured artillery, Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Va. April 1865 Date Created/Published: photographed 1865, [printed between 1880 and 1889] Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : gelatin silver. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32781...

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