The Artilleryman Magazine

08/04/2025

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Beautiful photograph of Saturday's cannon firing demonstrations. Thank you to our friend and local photog, David Landreth, for your great work!

For those that missed it, we will be firing again on Labor Day weekend for our end-of-season artillery firing programs. Check back for a complete schedule. Tour Hardin County McNairy County Tourism Southwest Tennessee Tourism Association Crump, Tennessee Tourism Visit Corinth

07/06/2025

Union artillery at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

Intersecting fields of fire from the Union batteries created a killing ground that the Confederate infantry of the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble attack advanced through with heavy casualties.

07/04/2025

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07/02/2025

06/26/2025

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06/11/2025

This past weekend the men of 1st Section hosted a training class for mounted artillery drill in Northern Indiana.
This was a first class event introducing the participants to stable call, horse care, harnessing and limbering and unlimbering a gun with a team, and moving with the gun.
For many of us who usually do static artillery, this added a whole new perspective of having the horses and bringing a moving piece in to action.

06/10/2025

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05/08/2025

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03/14/2025

CS long pattern Mullane shell. This one has sabot, pins, and bolt intact. The 7 grooves in sabot plate indicate it was fired in a captured 3” Ordnance Rifle

03/06/2025

CS side loaded 12pdr case shots. Later in the War, the confederacy began using iron balls on case shot rather than the usual lead. The standard way of making case shot was to fill the case cavity with lead balls and pour in a sulphur matrix to hold them in place. The cavity for the bursting charge was then drilled through the fuse opening. With iron balls, this was very difficult. As a result the side loader method was used. A rod was inserted into the fuse hole then through the side loading port, the iron balls and Matrix were inserted. After it solidified the rod was pulled, leaving the bursting charge cavity. The side loading port was then closed. Three types of plug were used. Iron plug, brass plug, and lead plug. Here is an example of each the iron and brass plugs were constructed from the under plugs of bormann time fuses. The lead plug. Was simply molten lead melted into the port then filed as smooth. These examples were recovered at Petersburg, and Bermuda Hundred in Virginia.

02/27/2025

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02/26/2025

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Nothing is more basic to American Civil War field artillery than simply firing the gun. Check out our latest instructional video - Loading and firing of the ...