Why are they pushing the artillery?

[charlesonmission]

I've been playing the take the round tops scenario. My artillery men are pushing their pieces, to move them. Why don't they limber up? Have the horses been shot? Is there any way to notice this?

[Jack ONeill]

Charles,

What you are seeing is called "Prolonging." It was relatively easier to move the guns a short disance by hand then to limber up and move them. What we don't see is the gunners attaching drag ropes and such to hooks on the axles. Some of the crew would get hold of them and pull, while others grabbed the wheel spokes, (sort of what we se here in the game), and push that way. The horses are not dead, they are 100-200 yards to the rear, hopefully out of the line of fire. Regulations state, (somewhere0, the distance where you stop prolonging and limber up.

Jack

[35th Georgia]

This is one of the reasons I spend time in here and why I like it so much. Just learned a bit of info that I did not know. Thanks.

[Tobe123]

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