The long arm of Lee, or, The history of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia [electronic resource]: with a brief account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance . bore of two inches. It wasmounted on a two-wheeled carriage similar to that of aboat howitzer and was drawn by one horse in was operated by a lever attached to a revolving camshaft which rotated a cylinder, above which was anammunition hopper. The cartridges were fired by asliding hammer which automatically struck the percus-sion caps at each revolution of the cylinder. The gunhad a range of about 2,000 yards. Its f
The long arm of Lee, or, The history of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia [electronic resource]: with a brief account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance . bore of two inches. It wasmounted on a two-wheeled carriage similar to that of aboat howitzer and was drawn by one horse in was operated by a lever attached to a revolving camshaft which rotated a cylinder, above which was anammunition hopper. The cartridges were fired by asliding hammer which automatically struck the percus-sion caps at each revolution of the cylinder. The gunhad a range of about 2,000 yards. Its first test in actionwas on May 31, 1862, at the battle of Seven Pinesunder the direction of the inventor himself, who accom-panied Picketts Brigade. The results obtained wereso satisfactory that the Confederate Government hadsix of the guns made which comprised the material ofWilliams, later Schoolfields Battery, of the WesternArmy. A graphic account of their effect in the battle ofBlue Springs, East Tennessee, October 10, 1863, isgiven by Capt. T. T. Allen of the 7th Ohio Cavalry * *Conf<-drratc Veteran, November, 1D(IS, p. 5S1. Also Ibid., February, 1009p. ;\*l ,\j~« Sfc
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