The Artilleryman Magazine

04/10/2025

4-5 Apr was the 160th Anniversary of the Assault on Fort Blakeley, all on the original grounds at the park in Spanish Fort, AL. Fort Blakeley was one of the last major engagements in April of 1865.
The 15th Massachusetts Battery was recreated by 21 men and 3 guns in the original embrasures occupied during the battle.

03/14/2025

CS long pattern Mullane shell. This one has sabot, pins, and bolt intact. The 7 grooves in sabot plate indicate it was fired in a captured 3” Ordnance Rifle

03/06/2025

CS side loaded 12pdr case shots. Later in the War, the confederacy began using iron balls on case shot rather than the usual lead. The standard way of making case shot was to fill the case cavity with lead balls and pour in a sulphur matrix to hold them in place. The cavity for the bursting charge was then drilled through the fuse opening. With iron balls, this was very difficult. As a result the side loader method was used. A rod was inserted into the fuse hole then through the side loading port, the iron balls and Matrix were inserted. After it solidified the rod was pulled, leaving the bursting charge cavity. The side loading port was then closed. Three types of plug were used. Iron plug, brass plug, and lead plug. Here is an example of each the iron and brass plugs were constructed from the under plugs of bormann time fuses. The lead plug. Was simply molten lead melted into the port then filed as smooth. These examples were recovered at Petersburg, and Bermuda Hundred in Virginia.

02/27/2025

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02/26/2025

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02/26/2025

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02/22/2025

3.8" James type I percussion shell recovered at Shiloh. Possibly fired by Hickenloopers Ohio Battery. It evidently tumbled in flight as it hit base first, as the pebbles imbedded between vanes I are from the banks of the Tennessee River. When I had it drilled and preserved I left them there the shell will always have a bit of Shiloh with it.

02/21/2025

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02/20/2025

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02/19/2025

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02/13/2025

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