Handbook for Light Artillery

The Horse--How Obtained--Description of--Inspection of--Power of Teams--Weight behind Artillery Teams--Gaits of Artillery--Dentition--Plate of Diseases--Health and Disease--Vete...

Battery Books and Records--Rolls, Reports, and Returns--The Ration--Salt and Vinegar for Public Animals--The Travel-ration--Present Organization of U. S. Light Field-battery--Co...

Material steel Total length 3.83 feet Length of bore 3.43 " Travel of projectile 3.10 " Calibre 1.65 inches Weight 121 pounds Grooves 10 Twist of rifling, uniform 1 in 29.83 cal...

Gen. Holabird says: A pack-mule carries on an average 200 pounds. Allow one pack-mule to six or seven men for detachments out scouting from five to eight days; twelve mules to t...

The pack-mule should be active, short-coupled, short-legged, small-boned, square-built, with manifest powers of endurance, and should weigh from 800 to 1000 pounds. Army Regulat...

A mountain-battery should be self-reliant, and, as far as possible, independent of assistance beyond that of the usual escort furnished for its protection, and in the highest st...

The tube enters the jacket from the front[3] and has shoulders upon it, which come in contact with corresponding shoulders in the jacket. These shoulders prevent any forward mov...

Material steel Total length 7.56 feet Calibre 3.2 inches Weight 829 pounds Grooves 24 Twist of rifling, uniform 1 turn in 30 calibres Axis of trunnions above ground 3.56 feet Po...

Material steel Total length 7.79 feet Calibre 3.6 inches Weight 1181 pounds Grooves 26 Twist of rifling { 1 turn in 50 to { 1 turn in 25 calibers Axis of trunnions above ground...

The large nut on outside of nave-box is splined to the box. The linch-washers have a stud which prevents their turning with the wheel. The inner extremities of the spokes are pu...

=Paints, Turpentines, Oils, Lacquers, etc.=, are kept in a room separate from other stores, preferably a cellar. The floor should be covered with several inches of fine sand, wh...

The Horse. How Obtained. Description of. Inspection of. Power of Teams. Weight behind Artillery-teams. Gaits of Artillery. Dentition. Plate of Diseases. Sick Horses. Health and...

The light-artillery batteries include horse-batteries, in which the cannoneers are mounted on horseback; field-batteries, in which the cannoneers march by the side of their piec...

When artillery and its stores are to be shipped for an expedition, prepare first a list of all the articles, stating their number, weight of each, and the total weight of each k...

Light. Heavy. Calibre inches 1.45 1.45 Length of gun " 46.4 70.4 Height of trunnions above tread " 35 42.4 Length of gun-barrel " 29.1 50.1 Number of barrels 5 5 Weight of each...

=Interior Ballistics.=--The effects produced on a projectile in the bore of a gun, and on the gun, when subjected to the action of the products of combustion of gunpowder or oth...

=Bad Aiming.=--To obviate this, the men found to have the necessary quickness of hand and eye should be utilized for this work, though all should receive instruction in aiming....

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(1) Mixing the ingredients; (2) incorporating or "milling"; (3) breaking down the mill-cake; (4) pressing; (5) granulating; (6) dusting; (7) glazing; (8) second dusting; (9) sto...

Battery Books and Records. Rolls, Reports, and Returns. The Ration. Salt and Vinegar for Public Animals. The Travel-ration. Present Organization of U. S. Light Field-battery. Co...