If you don't like captured artillery blocking defiles, then you can always bring up a battery or two and blow them away. It is a permanent way to ensure they are not recaptured. In my re-enacting days, my unit trained with some reb gunners for a scenario where a piece would be taken, turned, and fired by a scratch crew of infantry. (for safety, one of the "wounded" reb gunners would put on a union jacket during the melee and would become a safety officer until the gune was retaken.
I like the artillery capture rule because it discourages "charge of the light brigade" forays by roving cavalry and makes it worthwhile to retake guns. I would not fire captured guns with wagons or minute units - but you can serve a battery of six guns with only 20 men - three per gun to sponge, fetch ammunition and load, but needing extra men to train the guns and run it up after recoil. It wouldn't be fast, but the F class accounts for that. The 25 men/gun includes not only gun crew, but drivers for all the limbers and caissons.
Longstreet and his staff served a gun at Antietam. respectfully submitted
Ian MIller 4/3/XV AoT
_________________ Ian Miller bvt Lt Gen USV 3/XVI/AotT
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