Sling cart used in removing the captured artillery

[tmh10]

• 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 (digital file from original item)

• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

• Call Number: LOT 4166-I, no. 26 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I've never seen a sling cart from that angle, thanks.

 

[tmh10]

I've never seen a sling cart from that angle, thanks.

With the guy standing there, it gives you an idea of just how big they were. We think today how our machines are so good but back then their stuff was up to the job they were built to do.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

With the guy standing there, it gives you an idea of just how big they were. We think today how our machines are so good but back then their stuff was up to the job they were built to do.

So true. We naturally tend to think of that era as some kind of dark age, when actually the technology was not that far removed from the early years of the 20th century.

 

[RobertP]

Those must be 9 foot "rims." A pimpmobiler's dream.

 

[ErnieMac]

To the Sound of the Guns blog has additional information and photos.
http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/tag/sling-cart/

"By 1861, the Instruction for Heavy Artillery outlined the use of two different types of sling carts – a large (or siege) sling cart and a hand sling cart. The heavier version, when joined to a siege limber, was horse-drawn. The hand sling cart, as the name would imply, was designed for manhandling. In a pinch, artillery crews might impress a standard siege limber a basic sling cart." The following Harper's Weekly illustration from the Siege of Fort Pulaski shows what happens when horses aren't available.