The Artilleryman Spring 2015
Jack W. Melton Jr.A LITTLE ROAR
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BRITISH ARMSTRONG FUZE
Sir William Armstrong introduced the breech loading (B.L.) Plain
Percussion Fuze in 1870
LIVE FIRE CANISTER TESTS
Burrough’s Battery fires canister from a 12-pdr. Field Howitzer and
10-pdr. Parrott to test impact of one-inch canister shot
TWO 19TH-CENTURY GUNS AT FORT JACKSON
The Savannah, Ga., fort is raising funds to restore and mount an unmarked 18-pdr. and 24-pdr.
HUNT’S INSTRUCTIONS ON FIELD ARTILLERY
New Army of the Potomac Chief of Artillery Henry J. Hunt issued an order on tactics in September 1862
SURVIVING ARTILLERY UPDATE
Jim Bender, keeper of the National Registry of Known Surviving
Civil War Artillery, adds 11 guns to the list
NORWICH UNIVERSITY’S BRITISH 12-PDRS.
The Vermont university displays three Armstrong-Whitworth rifled breech loaders
J.M. CURRIE’S IMPROVED PROJECTILE
The U.S. Patent Office issued Currie’s patent for “improvement in projectiles for ordnance” on Oct. 16, 1866
CLASSIFIED ADS