The Artilleryman Magazine

09/07/2025

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08/28/2025

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Mortar Monday pic 💥 Note the ball, the friction primer & the blast deflector are all in the air!
(We use friction primers when we want the gun to fire at a certain time, such as this shot, which was at a mortar demonstration. We use fuse in competition.)
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08/25/2025

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We thought we would share another project from the preservation team. They started working on our cannons in our Veterans section in 2023. The picture shows before and after of one of the cannons. The first job was to clean both cannons with water and remove the lichen from them. Then they repainted the words on the cannons. The final step was putting a coat of Owatrol Marine Oil on them to further preserve them. The oil doesn´t just clean; it helps protect. By removing rust and oxidation, it eliminates the source of future corrosion, keeping the cannons looking their best for longer. Preservation is an ongoing process and they recently put another coat of oil on in 2025.

08/09/2025

Excellent period photos with a variety of uniforms and how a Civil War Artillery detachment is supposed to look;
Number 1 leaning to the rear, rammer parallel to the ground, looking forward. Number 2 leaning to the rear, looking forward, no worm. Number 3 standing erect, aligned on 1 and the cascable. Number 4 facing forward, lanyard in the right hand, back of hand up, ready to pull downward behind his back.

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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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.