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American Civil War Artillery 1861-65 (2). Heavy Artillery

By Katcher Ph. , Bryan T.

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2001
ISBN
9781841762197
Open Library ID
OL8922195M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11495977 bytes)
Pages
48\51
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Because of the length of the coastline of the United States, from the beginning American ordnance and engineers placed an emphasis on heavy artillery mounted in coastal defences. The Union army organised its 'Heavy Artillery' into separate regiments, uniformed and equipped differently. While the Field Artillery was assigned across the fighting fronts Heavy Artillery units served the big guns in the forts and the defences of Washington. The Confederates did not differentiate types of artillery and those that became known as Heavy Artillery did so through informal association rather than formal designation. This book details the development and usage of the big guns.

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