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 . id, actedon the proverb, The first shot is for the devil, thesecond for God, and only the third for the King,—thatis to say, that at such a range only one shot in threewould hit a target 6 feet high and 50 yards wide. Jackson could have been little influenced by suchrumors concerning rifled ordnance as may have siftedacross the Atlantic before his own trial of the Parrottgun. His nature was not one which allowed him to beinfl
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 . id, actedon the proverb, The first shot is for the devil, thesecond for God, and only the third for the King,—thatis to say, that at such a range only one shot in threewould hit a target 6 feet high and 50 yards wide. Jackson could have been little influenced by suchrumors concerning rifled ordnance as may have siftedacross the Atlantic before his own trial of the Parrottgun. His nature was not one which allowed him to beinfluenced by less than the most tangible knowledgeor experience. That the Americans knew little ofEuropean progress with rifling is again borne out bythe fact that Gen. Johnston, though frantic in his ef-forts to secure ordnance for his field artillery, wrote hisChief of Artillery, in Richmond,:]: after the battle of *The famous Stonewall Jackson. The gun was received July 5. the Civil War the West Point foundry furnished the United StatesGovernment with 1,200 guns and ,00o projectiles. JCol. William N. Pendleton, later Chief of Artillery, A. N. V. WILLIAM NELSON IENDLETONChief of Artillery, A. N. V The Loxg Arm of Lee 65 Bull Run, Do not fail to urge the making of 12-pounder howitzers. I have faith in them. Let themsend guns and equipments and leave us to organize. Ienclose a requisition for equipment of a hattery ofrifles, which cannot be filled here (Manassas) Willvou see if the authorities in Richmond can do it? Donot, hozcever, let them prefer it to the fitting out offield batteries of smooth-bore guns. And on the 10thof August, he wrote to President Davis urging an in-crease of the artillery arm. to be armed and equippedby borrowing material from the States, or by castingguns, especially in Richmond, adding a particular re-quest for 12-pounder howitzers. Though thoroughlyaware of the value of artillery, attributing the successof the gre
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