Glorieta Pass- Foote Quote

[Sheltowee]

In Shelby Foote's account of Sibley's retreat from New Mexico, he makes the following statement:

"Next day, having stayed behind to bury their brass field pieces, for which they had neither shells nor powder, the remainder followed down the east bank to Peralta."

Does anyone know if these guns were ever recovered? Thanks

 

[lelliott19]

Does anyone know if these guns were ever recovered? Thanks

I'd like to know the same thing about the cannon of Fraser's Battery

....Judge Falligant concluded his talk with a stirring and pathetic account of the burial of the guns of Fraser's Battery at the conclusion of the war. 'The men of the battery had fought through four years of bloody strife and they were hardened to look without emotion upon the most tragic and affecting scenes of battle. Their eyes were wet with tears, said Judge Falligant, when they buried their guns in the soil of old Virginia. The caissons and carriages were dismounted and a trench was dug in which the guns were tenderly laid to rest. There, in the shade of the hills over which the battery had fought so long and so well, its buried guns lie to-day.'

That speech was given in 1901, so if the guns had been recovered by that time, Falligant was unaware of it. I wonder if they have ever been found?

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

In Shelby Foote's account of Sibley's retreat from New Mexico, he makes the following statement:

"Next day, having stayed behind to bury their brass field pieces, for which they had neither shells nor powder, the remainder followed down the east bank to Peralta."

Does anyone know if these guns were ever recovered? Thanks

I think there may have been a few threads about this over the years, but I can't find the posts.

Paging @Desert Kid

 

[John Hartwell]

Sibley's 8 mountain howitzers were apparently recovered in 1889.

Buried Cannon | Civil War Potpourri

I am reading a book on the last few months of the war. On two occasions the author cites Confederate artilleryman burying cannon when it appears that things are not going well. Apparently they burned the carriages and then buried the tubes. Two questions. Was this a common practice or only done...

civilwartalk.com

See post #10

See also:
Buried Confederate Cannons

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Sibley's 8 mountain howitzers were apparently recovered in 1889.

Buried Cannon | Civil War Potpourri

I am reading a book on the last few months of the war. On two occasions the author cites Confederate artilleryman burying cannon when it appears that things are not going well. Apparently they burned the carriages and then buried the tubes. Two questions. Was this a common practice or only done...

civilwartalk.com

See post #10

See also:
Buried Confederate Cannons

Thanks !

That's the tread I remembered, but couldn't find.

 

[Sheltowee]

Sibley's 8 mountain howitzers were apparently recovered in 1889.

Buried Cannon | Civil War Potpourri

I am reading a book on the last few months of the war. On two occasions the author cites Confederate artilleryman burying cannon when it appears that things are not going well. Apparently they burned the carriages and then buried the tubes. Two questions. Was this a common practice or only done...

civilwartalk.com

See post #10

See also:
Buried Confederate Cannons

Excellent…thank you.
Appears there may be some others, elsewhere, just awaiting someone to unearth.

 

[bayouace]

@lelliott19
"Of the 180 Lee had at his disposal on the morning of April 8, 1865: 15 were abandoned to the pursuing Army of the Potomac; 25 were captured at Appomattox Station by Custer; 54 were recovered from Red Oak Church (most having been buried); 21 escaped to Lynchburg; and 65 were surrendered or dismantled in camp." Red Oak Church later moved to Oakville, but two Black churches split off and stayed nearby, and the original site can maybe be located.

Surrender of the Artillery Historical Marker

Along the stage road and in the field before you, the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia was surrendered. (A historical marker located in Appomattox in Appomattox County, Virginia.)

www.hmdb.org

Knowing you, this is old information. Lol