. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . al Laboratory atMacon, Georgia; Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Rains, of theAugusta powder-mills and Arsenal; Lieutenant-Colonel LeroyBroun, commanding the Richmond Arsenal; Major M. , of the Atlanta Arsenal; Lieutenant-Colonel R. , of the Macon Arsenal; Major J. A. De Lagnel, ofFayetteville; Major J. T. Trezevant, of Charleston Arsenal:Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. White, of Selma Arsenal; Lieuten-ant-Colonel B. G. Baldwin, chief of ordnance. Army of North-ern V
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . al Laboratory atMacon, Georgia; Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Rains, of theAugusta powder-mills and Arsenal; Lieutenant-Colonel LeroyBroun, commanding the Richmond Arsenal; Major M. , of the Atlanta Arsenal; Lieutenant-Colonel R. , of the Macon Arsenal; Major J. A. De Lagnel, ofFayetteville; Major J. T. Trezevant, of Charleston Arsenal:Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. White, of Selma Arsenal; Lieuten-ant-Colonel B. G. Baldwin, chief of ordnance. Army of North-ern Virginia; Lieutenant-Colonel H. Oladowski, chief ofordnance, Army of Tennessee, and Major \V. Allen, chiefordnance officer, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. [170] XIII AMMUNITION 13-INCH SHELLS FOR THE SEA COAST MORTARS These missiles, filledwith explosive, andtrailing a fiery fuse,shrieked like lost soulsin their flight, thateovered nearly two anda half miles from thegaping mouths of thetremendous mortarslooking like huge bull-Frogs with their muzzleelevation of forty-fivedegrees. The shellsseen in this photograph. show the larger holewhere the time fusewas inserted, and theindentations which en-abled the gunners tohandle them with asoli of pincers carriedby two men. Themortars were mannedby the famous FirstConnecticut HeavyArtillery, prominent inmany important en-gagements from thePeninsula to thePetersburg Campaign.(lompanies served onthe Bermuda Hundredlines in 1864, also ;ilFort Fisher, THE AMMUNITION USED IN THE WAR Y ^■i By O. E. Hunt Captain, United States Army UNTIL the middle of the nineteenth century there wasbut little improvement in cannon or gunpowder. Onereason for this was that bronze and iron were used for makingguns, and these metals could not withstand the exceedinglygreat pressures of heavy charges of powder unless the cannonwere cast so large as to be unmanageable. No scientific treat-ment of the subject of gun-strains had been attempted pre-vious
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