Instruction for Heavy Artillery

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1863 - 261 Seiten
 

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Seite iii - Instruction for Heavy Artillery ; prepared by a Board of Officers, for the use of the Army of the United States. With service of a gun mounted on an iron carriage. In one volume, i zmo, with numerous illustrations.
Seite 220 - Divide the total quantity to be transported among the vessels, and make statements in duplicate of the articles on board each vessel, one of which lists should go with the vessel and the other with the officer shipping the stores.
Seite 97 - The hurter is placed on it, and the bolts driven through the corresponding holes in these pieces. The hurter should be so placed as to prevent the wheels from striking against the epaulment when the piece is in battery. If the interior slope has a base of twosevenths of its height, the inner edge of the hurter should be two and a half inches from the foot of the slope. The other planks are then laid, each one forced against the preceding, the last plank having holes for the rear eye-bolts. By drawing...
Seite 46 - ... places it on the grummet-wad, and stands, facing the piece, about 18 inches to the rear and left of No. 2. The gunner adjusts the piece at about one degree's elevation before he signals to No. 3 to unbar. • 3. SPONGE. 55. No. 1, pressing the sponge firmly against the bottom of the chamber, turns it three times from right to left, and three times from left to right, draws it out to the front of the chamber, wipes out the bore, reinserts the sponge along the upper side of the bore as far as the...
Seite 221 - Articles required to be disembarked first should be put in last, or so placed that they can be readily got at. If the disembarkation is to be performed in front of the enemy, some of the...
Seite 97 - This elevation may be determined by placing a block four and a half inches high on the front end of the sleeper, and laying a straight-edge with a gunner's level on it from this block to the rear end, then so arrange the earth as to bring the level true in this position. The next set of sleepers are laid against and inside of the first, overlapping them three feet, having the rear ends inclined outwards, so that the outer edges of the exterior ones shall...
Seite 31 - In carrying the shell they hold the handspike with their right hands, No. 4 at the small end and in advance of No. 2. Passing by the left of the piece, between the gunner and the muzzle, they rest the shell upon the platform against the middle of the transom. No. 1, placing the wiper upon the handspike, receives the small end of the handspike from No.
Seite 97 - The first deck-planlc, with a hole through each end for the eye-bolts, is laid in place perpendicular to the directrix, its holes corresponding with those in the sleepers. The hurter is placed on it, and the bolts driven through the corresponding holes in these pieces. The hurter should be so placed as to prevent the wheels from striking against the epaulment when the piece is in battery. If the interior slope has a base of twosevenths of its height, the inner edge of the hurter should be two and...
Seite 95 - ... present itself which will serve as a point upon which to direct the line of metal. No means should be neglected that may tend to secure accuracy of aim ; for the shot that is thrown away by carelessness in pointing, had better not be thrown at all. 20. How may precision of fire be secured at night ? When a fixed object is to be fired at by night, the piece should be directed during the day, and two narrow and well-dressed strips of wood laid on the inside of the wheels, and two others outside...
Seite 44 - ... grasping it near the small end and at the height of the shoulder, back of the hand down, elbow touching the body; the other hand back up, the arm extended naturally; the butt of the handspike upon the ground on the side furthest from the parapet, and six inches in advance of the alignment.

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