Consolidated Return of the Loss and Expenditure of Artillery and Artillery Material in the Battle of Gettysburg

Amish John · Post by **Amish John** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:30 am

This is interesting. According to Scott Hartwig at GNMP, no Federal rifled artillery batteries carried solid shot into the battle.

http://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/12/08 ... tysburg-2/

Sounds like we need to dump all that solid shot out of the rifled guns' limbers and caissons and fill the empty slots with percussion shell, timed fused shell, shrapnel (which used a timed fuse), and canister.

CoB4thTEXAS · Post by **CoB4thTEXAS** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:41 pm

That is interesting.

I'm all for decreasing the variety if not the volume of lead coming my way.

I would really like to know is whats the difference between a timed fuse shell and a shrapnel shell, never heard of a timed fuse shell before now.

*S*

Amish John · Post by **Amish John** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:59 pm

Here's a link that may help those not familiar with some of the aspects of CW artillery, ammunition, and fuses.

http://www.civilwarartillery.com/

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Consolidated Return of the Loss and Expenditure of Artillery and Artillery Material in the Battle of Gettysburg

Consolidated Return of the Loss and Expenditure of Artillery and Artillery Material in the Battle of Gettysburg

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