the artillery
Civil War Artillery
Bibliographic Sources for Information on Civil War Artillery
Henry L. Abbott, Siege Artillery in the Campaigns against Richmond with Notes on the 15-inch Gun, Professional Papers 14 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1867)
Alfred Mordecai, Artillery for the United States Land Service as Devised and Arranged by the Ordnance Board, Including Drawings and Tables of Dimensions of the Ordnance for the Land Service of the United States, 1841 (Washington, D.C.: J&G. S. Gideon, 1849)
Instruction for Field Artillery, Prepared by a Board of Artillery Officers (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863)
Rpt, Joseph M. Hanson, 27 May 1940, sub: A Report on the Deployment of the Artillery at the Battle of Antietam, Md., With a View To Making Battery Positions at the Antietam National Battlefield Site, in National Park Service Files, Antietam National Battlefield.
Images of Civil War Artillery
Washington, D.C. Wiard 6-pdr. gun at the Arsenal Source: LOC Digital ID: cwpb 04276
District of Columbia. Gun crews of Company H, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, at Fort Lincoln Source: LOC Digital ID: cwpb 04286
Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun, model 1841 Source: LOC: Digital ID: cwpb 02256
Unknown location. 12-pdr. Napoleon (model 1857?) Source: LOC Digital ID: cwpb 01981
Confederate Howitzers - Location unknown Source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02494
Fort C.F. Smith, Co. L, 2d New York Artillery
Captured Siege Guns
Parrot Gun Source: LOC Digital ID: cwpb 02753
