. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s of the Parrott type, or the3-inch U. S. pattern. It was extremely rare at anj period of the war to find abattery with uniform equipment. There was at no time in theArmy of Northern Virginia more than six or eight batteries ofXapoleon guns, and a less number of 3-inch rifles. It seemsto have been thought desirable to have a section of rifles and asection of smoothbores. But it was not unusual to find in thesame section rifles of difi^erent caliber, or a Napoleon with a6-pounder, or perhaps a howitzer; and in a battery of fourguns,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s of the Parrott type, or the3-inch U. S. pattern. It was extremely rare at anj period of the war to find abattery with uniform equipment. There was at no time in theArmy of Northern Virginia more than six or eight batteries ofXapoleon guns, and a less number of 3-inch rifles. It seemsto have been thought desirable to have a section of rifles and asection of smoothbores. But it was not unusual to find in thesame section rifles of difi^erent caliber, or a Napoleon with a6-pounder, or perhaps a howitzer; and in a battery of fourguns, there was not infrequently at least three diff^erent caliberswhich required different anmaunition. This made the supplyof ammunition more difl^cult and impaired the effectiveness ofthe battery. Exj^erience taught the value of concentrated fire,and that four Napoleons or fovir rifles were more effective thanthe fire of a mixed battery. The Napoleon and the 3-inch rifle, U. S. pattern, were tliefavorite guns; the former, because it ^^as equally adapted to the. BRIGADIER-GENERAL E. P. ALEXANDER, WHO COMMANDED LONGSTREETSARTILLERY AT GETTYSBURG E. P. .\lexauder was the Confederate officer who commanded Longstreefs eighty guns in tlie great artillerybattle which preceded Picketts charge at Gettysburg. He entered the Engineer Corps of the Confederatearmy April 2. 18G1, and served on the staff of General G. T. Beauregard as engineer and chief of signal servicetill August of that year. As chief of ordnance of the Army of Northern Virginia, he distinguished himselfon the bloody field of Antietam. He directed the eighty pieces on Longstreets front .it Gettysburg, whichprepared the way for Picketts charge until they had shot away practically all their ammunition. He wasacting chief of artillery in Longstreets corps from September , 1863, till Februarj 2(i, 1H(>4, and was ap-pointed chief of artillery of the corps with which he remained till Appomattox, serWng in the Wilderness, atS
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