Gatling Gun Ammunition

[Cannonman1]

Since Gatling Guns were considered quasi Artillery I hope I am in the right forum...
Question.. Once Gatling transitioned to metallic cartridges for his guns in 1864, what ordnance supply would have made those .58 cal copper cased cartridges in the last year of the war??
I have not found any reference to manufacturer.... Maybe one of the Spencer suppliers like Crittenden & Tibbet ??
The guns were private purchases by Ben Butler for the Army of the James (12) and another by Admiral porter (1) for a total of 13
Frankford Arsenal made the cartridges for the Government purchased guns in 1866 but no mention of where ammo came from in late war period for privately purchased guns.
Chamber guns using rifle musket ammunition and caps were never issued and burned in fire.

 

[RedRover]

Since Gatling Guns were considered quasi Artillery I hope I am in the right forum...
Question.. Once Gatling transitioned to metallic cartridges for his guns in 1864, what ordnance supply would have made those .58 cal copper cased cartridges in the last year of the war??
I have not found any reference to manufacturer.... Maybe one of the Spencer suppliers like Crittenden & Tibbet ??
The guns were private purchases by Ben Butler for the Army of the James (12) and another by Admiral porter (1) for a total of 13
Frankford Arsenal made the cartridges for the Government purchased guns in 1866 but no mention of where ammo came from in late war period for privately purchased guns.
Chamber guns using rifle musket ammunition and caps were never issued and burned in fire.

From 1862, the brass cased cartridges were standard...

Gatling himself provided 12,000 rounds with each gun delivered...

At the close of 1864 the Frankford Arsenal conducted experiments to perfect the cased cartridges.

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The Army officially adopted the Gatling gun in 1866.

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[Cannonman1]

From what I have read, a likely manufacturer of the unique .58 cal rimfire Gatling Cartridge during the war would have been Crittenden and Tibbal..
Since there are no surviving ammunition boxes for this round or even paper or cardboard packaging I ventured into the "possible".. In collaboration with another pard in my artillery unit we came up with the following boxes.. The reason for making them came down to containing the various parts, tools, lubricants and ammo necessary to keep our 2 Gatlings operating and avoiding the modern stuff that sneaks into the scene when firing these guns with live ammo.
Yes, they are purely cosmetic and are not historical recreations but they fit in better than a .50 cal ammo box.
If anyone has knowledge of an original box anywhere please let me know.

 

[Cannonman1]

Post Script
In creating the box we know a few things.. Ammo boxes contained the following information
Caliber of round, quantity, description, manufacturer, year of manufacture, Boxes were probably OD, lettering was probably white. Any box or packaging in this case will be wrong in a sense.. This box takes some givens and uses what we know was pretty much guaranteed to have been present. Its composition is however a guess.