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Gents,
An AC search of limber markings and limber stencils proved NO results.
I have seen three images now of Napoleon? limbers marked with stenciling on the ammunition box.
Image one is in "Civil War Album - Complete Photographic History of the Civil War" edited by William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley on page 453. It shows a limber with a wheel missing and cartridges strewn about with a sole dead horse near the limber pole. On the box is stenciled "Light 12 Pdr Gun." It is in the Gettysburg section of the book, but one can't say for sure without further evidence this was at Gettysburg...
Image two is in a book called "Field Artillery of the American Civil War" edited by Katcher. Its a cheesy little book for beginners, with many errors, but has a negro soldier standing guard over a Napoleon with a limber attached and the SAME markings as above.
Image three was recently posted on the AC under "Odd Couples" 1/7/2007, by
Bob Williams, Pinetops Mess, 1st NC Arty .
It shows a slight variation of this marking, albeit attached to a Parrott Gun which was the initial reason for post. This image shows a stencil saying "12 Pdr Gun."
THE QUESTIONS:
Is this stencilling mentioned anywhere in the manuals or regs that anyone has found?
Would the limber ammunition boxes be switched out often enough or at all that would warrant stencilling the ammunition type on them? OR was the limber box pretty much permanent to that gun and kind of became a "home" box for that detachment?
Are there any other photos of these stencils out there that we know of?
OF PECULIAR NOTE, is the ammunition box on display downstairs at the NMP museum at Gettysburg... it has stencils to a SPECIFIC UNIT on it.. the Excelsior Brigade, Third Battery if I remember correctly. How common was this?
Are there any other photo or first person accounts of units stencilling their boxes?
Thanks in advance.
Your obedient servant,
Chris Sedlak
An AC search of limber markings and limber stencils proved NO results.
I have seen three images now of Napoleon? limbers marked with stenciling on the ammunition box.
Image one is in "Civil War Album - Complete Photographic History of the Civil War" edited by William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley on page 453. It shows a limber with a wheel missing and cartridges strewn about with a sole dead horse near the limber pole. On the box is stenciled "Light 12 Pdr Gun." It is in the Gettysburg section of the book, but one can't say for sure without further evidence this was at Gettysburg...
Image two is in a book called "Field Artillery of the American Civil War" edited by Katcher. Its a cheesy little book for beginners, with many errors, but has a negro soldier standing guard over a Napoleon with a limber attached and the SAME markings as above.
Image three was recently posted on the AC under "Odd Couples" 1/7/2007, by
Bob Williams, Pinetops Mess, 1st NC Arty .
It shows a slight variation of this marking, albeit attached to a Parrott Gun which was the initial reason for post. This image shows a stencil saying "12 Pdr Gun."
THE QUESTIONS:
Is this stencilling mentioned anywhere in the manuals or regs that anyone has found?
Would the limber ammunition boxes be switched out often enough or at all that would warrant stencilling the ammunition type on them? OR was the limber box pretty much permanent to that gun and kind of became a "home" box for that detachment?
Are there any other photos of these stencils out there that we know of?
OF PECULIAR NOTE, is the ammunition box on display downstairs at the NMP museum at Gettysburg... it has stencils to a SPECIFIC UNIT on it.. the Excelsior Brigade, Third Battery if I remember correctly. How common was this?
Are there any other photo or first person accounts of units stencilling their boxes?
Thanks in advance.
Your obedient servant,
Chris Sedlak
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