Parrott 10 pdr sights

[cannonmn]

At Gettysburg, would all Union Parrott 10 pounders have been using pendulum hausse sights, as far as we know?

What prompted the question was this receipt by Rowan Artillery aka Reilly's Battery, for two 10 pdr Parrotts from Branch Artillery. Presumably Branch was dissolving then? Those two Parrotts were undoubtedly the two they captured from 4th NY Independent Battery at Devil's Den, Gettysburg.

 

[Tom Elmore]

I can't address the sights query, but it's my understanding the Branch Artillery was reorganized as Company F, 13th North Carolina Battalion in late 1863, and surrendered at Appomattox. Swapping of artillery pieces between batteries within a corps was apparently a fairly common practice (based on what occurred during the Gettysburg campaign).

Reilly's Rowan Artillery had obtained one enemy Parrott (the third piece from Smith's battery) at Gettysburg, as a replacement for a Confederate-made cast-iron Ordnance Rifle that had burst prior to the infantry advance on July 2. From the above document it would appear they received the other two Parrotts from the Branch Artillery on April 18, 1864, presumably as part of an exchange (perhaps giving up two Napoleons to the Branch Artillery?).

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

No, they would not use the Hausse sight.....
On the Parrot that you are researching, is there a place to hold the Hausse?

 

[cannonmn]

No, they would not use the Hausse sight.....
On the Parrot that you are researching, is there a place to hold the Hausse?

No Sir, no hausse bracket nor screw holes for one.