The British Light 6-pounder Gun is from the Treatise of Artillery 1780 by John Muller and the Course of Artillery by C. W. Rudyerd 1793. Originally cast in bronze but often seen in iron this barrel was used during the American Revolution and the War of 1812….
The Yankee Three-inch rifle was a dead shot at any distance under a mile. They could hit the end of a flour barrel more often than miss, unless the gunner got rattled. This tribute was grudgingly given by a member of Lumsden’s Confederate battery while it was…
The Parrott Rifle was designed by Robert Parker Parrott, a captain of Ordnance in the United States. As an inspector of cannon at West Point Foundry, Cold Springs, New York, he was asked to resign his commission and become superintendent of the foundry. It was there, just…
Five centuries of evolution of bronze field pieces were climaxed by a single smoothbore. One cannon was to outperform, and, during the Civil War to make obsolete, both 6-pounder guns and 12-pounder howitzers of mixed light field artillery batteries. Although officially called the “light 12-pounder gun” in…
Companion weapons to Civil War guns were Howitzers-smoothbore cannon. As a rule, designed to throw large projectiles with comparatively light charges of powder concentrated at the bottom of the tube by means of a chamber. They were lighter than guns of the same caliber and at short…