Foto Friday 12/27

[ARW]

Ordnance - noun... mounted guns; artillery... Show us what might your favorite mounted piece. This is the Williams Rapid Fire Gun. The first rapid fire machine gun used in combat. From the museum at New Market.

 

[Wallyfish]

The history of this Napoleon is fascinating to me. While it has no ties to the battle of Gettysburg, it is now physically located at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. What makes it fascinating to me? First is the casting was done at The Revere Copper Company. So that is pretty cool. Second, by luck it is in Gettysburg. Third, it was inspected by T. J. R. For artillerist that is really cool as those initials are for Thomas Jackson Rodman. Add it all up and you have a fascinating piece.

 

[Ethan S.]

I really like this 12 pounder Napoleon, at the position of Simonsons battery, Perryville.

10 pounder Parrot at Loomis heights.

 

[Lubliner]

Not my favorite, but the general commanding the Northern District, Dept. of the South (probably Foster) claims naval howitzers as the most advantageous for the coastal islands. It is mentioned he thought it unwise to expose heavy pieces of artillery there. Continuing,
"The navy howitzers being capable of transportation in row-boats, and it being perfectly practicable where there are no horses to draw them by hand, the general considers them as a most useful piece of ordnance to have in this command."
Lieutenant E. W#. Schauffler to Ordnance Officer, Captain J. W. Grace, Folly Island, S. C. July 16, 1864.
[O. R. Series 1 Volume 35 Part II, page 176].
I would like someone to share a picture of one, thanks.
Lubliner.

 

[jcrook]

Tredegar Iron Works Richmond VA -Vandenburg Volley Gun

 

[TomP]

This 3.8 inch James pattern rifle was cast in Chicoppee, Massachusetts in 1861. It was used by a Union artillery battery at the Battle of Shiloh (unsure of which unit), and captured by the Confederates. It was brought to Corinth, MS and presented to Hoxton's TN Battery, a unit which was not able to fight at Shiloh due to a shortage of manpower. It was the pride of the battery, which was commanded by Capt. Thomas Tobin. The gun was in action on May 9, 1862, at engagement at Farmington during the month-long Siege of Corinth. When the Confederates abandoned the city they of course took it with them. The piece returned to Corinth and participated in the October 3-4, 1862, Battle of Corinth. It saw no service on the first day of the fight. To prepare for the attack on the following morning, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn brought up ten pieces of field artillery and placed them within 300 yards of Battery Robinett, the center of the Union line. While reconnoitering for a good position, Capt. Tobin and his bugler were captured by Federal pickets. At 4 a.m. the bombardment began but the Union counter-battery fire soon forced the Southerners to pull the guns back. All but one. Left on an exposed low ridge the rifle could be seen by thousands of Union soldiers. Twelve men of the 63rd Ohio Infantry ran down the Memphis Road to capture it. Heavy small-arms fire drove them back. Then, from inside of Battery Robinett, four men ran out of the fort to get the rifle. They were from Company C, 1st U.S. Infantry, all of them veterans before the war began. They too were under fire but managed to make it to the cannon and began to pull it up the Memphis Road. When they were half-way back a single soldier ran out to help. He was another Regular, from Battery F, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery. To the cheers of thousands, they brought the gun through the Union line. Normally pulled by six hours, that morning it was three Irishmen, a German, and a boy from South Carolina. After the battle one of the men took something sharp, probably a knife tip, and scratched into the soft bronze barrel, "Captured Oct 4 1862 Corinth Miss by 1 U.S. Inf."
The cannon is on permanent display, just yards from where it was captured, in the lobby of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, a unit of Shiloh National Military Park.

 

[JOHN42768]

Some very nice pieces

 

[ARW]

This 3.8 inch James pattern rifle was cast in Chicoppee, Massachusetts in 1861. It was used by a Union artillery battery at the Battle of Shiloh (unsure of which unit), and captured by the Confederates. It was brought to Corinth, MS and presented to Hoxton's TN Battery, a unit which was not able to fight at Shiloh due to a shortage of manpower. It was the pride of the battery, which was commanded by Capt. Thomas Tobin. The gun was in action on May 9, 1862, at engagement at Farmington during the month-long Siege of Corinth. When the Confederates abandoned the city they of course took it with them. The piece returned to Corinth and participated in the October 3-4, 1862, Battle of Corinth. It saw no service on the first day of the fight. To prepare for the attack on the following morning, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn brought up ten pieces of field artillery and placed them within 300 yards of Battery Robinett, the center of the Union line. While reconnoitering for a good position, Capt. Tobin and his bugler were captured by Federal pickets. At 4 a.m. the bombardment began but the Union counter-battery fire soon forced the Southerners to pull the guns back. All but one. Left on an exposed low ridge the rifle could be seen by thousands of Union soldiers. Twelve men of the 63rd Ohio Infantry ran down the Memphis Road to capture it. Heavy small-arms fire drove them back. Then, from inside of Battery Robinett, four men ran out of the fort to get the rifle. They were from Company C, 1st U.S. Infantry, all of them veterans before the war began. They too were under fire but managed to make it to the cannon and began to pull it up the Memphis Road. When they were half-way back a single soldier ran out to help. He was another Regular, from Battery F, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery. To the cheers of thousands, they brought the gun through the Union line. Normally pulled by six hours, that morning it was three Irishmen, a German, and a boy from South Carolina. After the battle one of the men took something sharp, probably a knife tip, and scratched into the soft bronze barrel, "Captured Oct 4 1862 Corinth Miss by 1 U.S. Inf."
The cannon is on permanent display, just yards from where it was captured, in the lobby of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, a unit of Shiloh National Military Park.
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Very interesting story. thanks

 

[Blockaderunner]

Whitworth at Gettysburg