Flying artillery
- Title
- Flying artillery
- LC Subject
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Armed Forces Soldiers
- Description
- By "horse artillery" and "flying artillery" as it is sometimes called, is meant an organization equipped usually with ten-pounder rifled guns, with all hands mounted. In ordinary light artillery the cannoneers either ride on the gun carriage or go afoot. In flying artillery each cannoneer has a horse. This form is by far the most mobile of all, and is best suited to accompany calvary on account of its ability to travel rapidly. With the exception of the method of mounting the cannoneers, there was not any difference between the classes of field batteries except as they were divided between "light" and "heavy". In the photograph above no one is riding on the gun-carriages, but all have separate mounts.
- Work Type
- lantern slides
- Date
- 1911/1940
- Identifier
- P217:40:34
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Set 61 - Civil War
- Institution
- Oregon State University