Great Artillery photo

[Danny]

Re: Great Artillery photo

...the second object hanging next to the water bucket looks like a leather water bucket. From what I have read in the 1861 Ordinance manual there should be two leather buckets as part of the equipment allotted to a gun.
Is this possibly a well worn leather water bucket?

Tedd -

Only leather water bucket I've seen is the type attached, this one found at Gettysburg shortly after the battle. It does not have a snap hook on it's strap like our hanging bucket has. But a leather water bucket is maybe not something bought on spec., so either of these could be a generic type as used even by civilian wagonmasters etc.

Dan Wykes

[marine05]

Re: Great Artillery photo

Nice enlargements! It looks to me like the second picture's bucket is just dinged and dented. But if it were not for Danny's ability to use all that neat photo editing stuff we would never have seen the dents.

S/F

Dan

[littleforkranger]

Re: Great Artillery photo

Hey Danny, nice work.....Do you think you could zoom in on the horses in the background? It may be cool to look at some of their set-ups....thanks....