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The Artillerists Manual, Compiled from Various Sources, and Adapted to the Service of the United States Illustrated
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by Brig.-Gen John GIBBON, U. S. VOLS. CAPTAIN
FOURTH ARTILLERY, U. S. ARMY.
SECOND
EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. (New
York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863).
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I. . GUNPOWDER
CHAPTER
III. FORM OF ORDNANCE.--MATERIALS
Origin, Theory; Cutting Grooves; Length; Inclination; Slugged; English; Carabine a Tige; Elongated Bullets; Bullets for Altered Muskets; Bullets for the New Rifled-musket and Pistol-carbine; Rifled Cannon; Parrott's Rifle; United States Rifles; Dyers Projectile; Hotchkiss Projectile; Armstrong Gun; Cavalli Gun.
PROJECTILES; Solid Shot; Calibre; Canister Shot; Bullets; Rifles and Artillery; HOLLOW SHOT; Shells; Spherical Case of Schrapnel; Carcasses; Grenades; War-Rockets; Congreve's Rocket; Hales' Rocket; Moulding; Casting; Core; Polishing; Materials; Inspecting; Callipers; Gauges; Preservation.
CHAPTER
VI. ARTILLERY CARRIAGES, MATERIAL, ETC
Artillery Material; Valliere's System; Gribeauval's System; U.S. Carriages; Movable Carriages; FIELD MATERIAL; Gun Carriages; The Caisson; The Battery Wagon; The Forge; Mountain Artillery; The Carriage; The Prarie Carriage; The Portable Forge; The Bellows; Siege Material; Platforms; Mortar Wagons; Mortar-Beds; Carts; The Field and Siege Gun; To Sling a Piece; Barbette-carriages; The Gun-carriage; The Columbiad Carriage; The Garrison Gun; The large Sling-cart; The Lifting-Jack; The Lever-Jack; Manoeuvering-blocks; Sea-coast Material; Heavy Sea-coast Mortar-beds; The Casemate Gun; The Casemate Truck.
CHAPTER
VII. THE THEORY OF FIRE
Target Practice; Velocity; Recoil; Theory of Fire; Mean Trajectory; Windage; Drift; Wind; Other Causes; The Marksman; Distances; Stadia; French Schools of Practice.
CHAPTER
VIII. THE PRACTICE OF FIRE
Solid Shot; Shells; Trajectory; Ricochets; Loading; Charges; To load with hot shot; Paixhan guns; Ricochet Firing; Pointing; Long Guns; Mortars; Night Firing; Solid Shot from Guns; Shells; Mortar Shells; Time of Flight; Rapidity of Firing; Recoil; Tables of Fire; Breaching.
CHAPTER
IX. FUZES
CHAPTER
X. ARTILLERY IMPLEMENTS
CHAPTER
XI. AMMUNITION
Origin; Use; Quantity; Divided; Fire; Organization; Marches; Mountain Artillery; Forage; Ammunition; Parking; Attacked; Tactics; Attack; Defense; Projectiles; Woods. Attacking; Defending; Defiles Attacking; Posts, Towns, &c., Attacking and Defense; Entrenchments, Attack and Defense; Retreat.
CHAPTER
XIII. ATTACK AND DEFENSE OF FORTIFIED PLACES
Seiges; Military Reconnaissances; Batteries; Kind; Tracing; Forming; Traverses; Mortar Batteries; Breaching Batteries; Defense; Sea-Coast Defenses;
APPENDIX
This work, originally designed as a book of instruction for the cadets of the Military Academy, has, since my separation from the department of artillery, been extended beyond the limits at first proposed, with a view of spreading information not popularly accessible, upon a subject of the first importance to our national defence.
It is submitted to my brother officers, trusting that many
allowances will be made for its defects, and that some one more capable of doing
justice to the subject will be induced to offer to the service, and to our
militia -- on whom, in the event of war, the principal defence of our large
fortifications must devolve -- a more complete system of instruction than I have
been able to furnish.
Where translations have been made, it has been my endeavor
to select such portions as are or may be applicable to our own service, leaving
out those peculiar to the foreign.
J.
G.
WEST
POINT N. Y., August 14, 1859.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
THE first edition of this work having been entirely
exhausted, and a second having been called for, I have endeavored to make such
alterations and improvements in the work as seemed to be necessary, and the
exigencies of active service would allow.
The chapter on Rifled Ordnance is partly taken from
Captain Benton's Course of Instruction
in Ordnance and Gunnery.
April, 1863.
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