This has to be the most intelligent thread I have read. Man, what happened to these discussions
Great points brought up in this!
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| Author: | Robert Frost [ Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:44 pm ] |
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Tony, Since a battery cannot fire if it is limbered, how can increasing its firepower at 1 hex make it into an offensive weapon? If it moves to within a hex of an opposing unit it must stop (limbered). If it is still there in the following turn, it unlimbers but cannot fire. Therefore, 40 minutes later if it has not been all shot up or uncrewed it can fire. Hardly seems worth the effort given that it has already been established that guns are not sufficiently strong in melee. This tactic would seem to be of little use. BG Robert Frost Army of Cumberland |
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| Author: | Blake [ Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
This has to be the most intelligent thread I have read. Man, what happened to these discussions Great points brought up in this!
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| Author: | mihalik [ Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
Here is something I came across that I didn't know before about artillery in the Civil War. http://civilwartalk.com/threads/out-of- ... hot.75644/ |
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| Author: | KWhitehead [ Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
Interesting about them using shells that way. However, the problem with artillery is it is difficult to determine just how guns were used. Guns were rarely overrun. Most times they limbered up well before the enemy was in melee range and rode off. Guns that couldn't the crews usually abandoned the guns and got infantry to help take them back. I suspect that what we read, hand to hand fighting around the guns, is the exception not the rule but it is difficult to be sure since there is little information on small unit tactics. |
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| Author: | D. Groce [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
Thanks Mike, very nice read. |
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| Author: | Blake [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
KWhitehead wrote: there is little information on small unit tactics. One decent source is the book "The Pride of the Confederate Artillery" which follows the 5th Louisiana Washington Artillery from Shiloh through Mobile. Its an interesting read and the author does a solid job of making an artillery battery come to life and describing their role in battle after battle. They lost a number of guns during the war (losing them at Shiloh and at Nashville especially) but the unit survived and served extremely well in many battles up until the fall of Mobile in 1865. It gives you a good picture of how artillerymen saw battles in the west. |
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| Author: | Deano [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
Blake wrote: KWhitehead wrote: there is little information on small unit tactics. One decent source is the book "The Pride of the Confederate Artillery" which follows the 5th Louisiana Washington Artillery from Shiloh through Mobile. Its an interesting read and the author does a solid job of making an artillery battery come to life and describing their role in battle after battle. They lost a number of guns during the war (losing them at Shiloh and at Nashville especially) but the unit survived and served extremely well in many battles up until the fall of Mobile in 1865. It gives you a good picture of how artillerymen saw battles in the west. As an interesting aside, the Washington Artillery still exists as a part of the Louisiana National Guard, and saw action the the Iraq War. Deano |
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| Author: | Robert Frost [ Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
Wow! How did this thread reemerge? I find a number of my own postings of which I had totally forgotten! Unfortunately, the issues are unchanged from this original thread. Therein lies the problem. |
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| Author: | KWhitehead [ Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Artillery Effectiveness Case Study |
I hope they upgraded their guns. 
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