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AJ
Was that article based on smoothbore or rifled cannons? or both?
BOSTON
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AJ
Was that article based on smoothbore or rifled cannons? or both?
BOSTON
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Hang on, when the Professor (j) out in Kansas wakes up he will be more than happy to provide all the answers to all your questions.
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I do not recall ever finding a definitive listing of casualties by weapon type other then a general synopsis stating that approximately 10& of all casualties were caused by artillery. There was, however, a non-scientific study authored by Professor George R. Stewart from the U.C.Berkeley that provided an interesting summation of his research on casualties suffered during Pickett's Charge. (Here is a graph showing some of his data: gburginfo.brinkster.net/ChargeCasualties.htm) Much of Professor Stewart's findings are based upon meticulous "speculations" (sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it...something akin to Government Intelligence?). Nevertheless, it does provide for interesting consideration.
The book, published in 1959, is titled Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. In Appendix C, Professor Stewart attempts to ascertain the number of artillery casualties suffered by the participating members of Pickett's Charge. Stewart devised a methodology utilizing several base questions. For example:
1. Number of rounds fired.
2. Number of balls in a canister round.
3. Number of troops advancing.
4. Number of troops withdrawing.
5. Accuracy of artillery fired.
6. Number of casualties.
7. Etc.
Based upon the statistical data he acquired, Professor Stewart concluded there were approximately 500 Confederates who were casualties of artillery fire (shell, solid, spherical). He also concludes that approximately 1,000 Confederates were casualties of cannister. All other Confederate casualties he attrributes to small arms fire. (As an aside, he concluded that the vast majority of Federal casualties were caused by small arms.)
Further, there are no definitive medical records extant that can confirm the number of wounds caused by artillery fire.
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Perhaps this little book will help.
Grape and Canister: The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
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BOSTON wrote:
AJ
Was that article based on smoothbore or rifled cannons? or both?
BOSTON
Not sure, but here's the link
www.civilwarartillery.com/books/GIBBON.PDF
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Look in Chapter 8, page 249, Bob.
J
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Southern Son wrote:
Perhaps this little book will help.
Grape and Canister: The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
I haven't looked at this one in a while, and I don't own it. I think I'd better get it. If you have it, and see something in it that would help us, let me know.
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Kerflumoxed wrote:
Look in Chapter 8, page 249, Bob.
J
Yes--interesting that General Gibbon likes canister at 300 to 450 yards. This is farther than most canister ranges I've read. Unfortunately, he still doesn't give us a figure for the dispersion at different distances.
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Look in Chapter 8, page 249, Bob.
J
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Isn't the dispersion he mentions "diverging from each other, in the form of a cone, the greater part of the balls being in the centre, and the extreme ones separating about one-tenth of the range" what you were looking for? I guess he's saying, for example, if the canister balls travel travel 100 yards they will disperse 10 yards? Of course I would imagine this would vary by type of tube.
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Willard ...Outstanding, this dialog should be attached to every SOW artillery bashing thread in this forum. Too many folks want the causalities to happen uncharacteristically, this game strives for historic accuracy.
...19th C battles evolved and moved slowly, not the 20th C Blitzkrieg way...
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