Old stuff

[ChazzC]

I think I'll stay on the west side of the river and see what the Statue of Liberty is wearing today

I think She’s closer to the East shore, but the road is busier.

 

[Chicken lights]

1- listed as an artillery sword, kinda curious why

2- speaking of cannons, check out that octagon barrel! 36 pounds!

I believe (could be wrong) the parrot cannons were rifled?

I was told the armies would have travelled with full time blacksmiths and farriers. Many moving parts to keep things functioning

 

[historicalarms]

Awesome photography of equally awesome displays Chicken

I recognize one vista photo's of the hill named "Little Round Top" & the piece of ground that "Pickets Charge" crossed and were anialated in doing so by the artillery we see in the other photos. That day broke the back of the Confederate march to Washington and they returned south

 

[Chicken lights]

I'll have to go back another day, there's a whole driving loop I didn't do, plus more at the visitors centre. As I was leaving the guy I was talking to gave me a pamphlet for a national cemetery nearby, too. But they have plenty of room to park and gave me permission to drop the wagon.

If I'm thinking of the right one, Pickets Charge the confederate forces were a mile wide as they advanced?

The guy I was talking to said to mention paper cartridges dot com, he apparently does a lot of videos on casting and load development

I took a quick look, what the heck is a paper cartridge? Muzzle loading?

 

[Bandit]

Ya, muzzle loading. It speeded up reloading, the powder and often the slug in later times were in a rolled paper tube. You ripped off the end, poured the power down the barrel ,then rammed the slug down the barrel, often with the paper still around the slug. The powder was premeasured, sometimes the slug was a bit under size to also speed up the reload.

 

[Susquatch]

I took a quick look, what the heck is a paper cartridge?

Others are prolly right about speed loading black powder loads.

However, rolled paper shotgun shells were also used for shotgun shells when I was a boy. I remember the old boys sayin that plastic was good for crap......

 

[historicalarms]

Bandit is correct about the muzzle loading aspect of paper cartridges but they were also used in the first cap fired breach loaders as well without pouring the powder first. They were inserted whole, they used nitrite soaked paper that the primer flash burned thru to ignite powder, then the paper burned up leaving clean chamber for next round....vast improvement over loose powder muzzleloaders.

 

[Bandit]

They also said the plastic cases would cause the chambers to rust and paper would not. I don’t know as never left cartridges in a chamber.