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- Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:46 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: Pattern of 1841 Horse Equipments information
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- Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:33 am
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
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- Views: 1987
Re: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
Not a clue! 
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:13 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
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Re: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
That is what I was coming up with, also. When, exactly, did the Grimsley’s go out of service and the McClellan go into service as an artillery saddle. Some of the heavy artillery units were still using Grinsley’s as late as 1900. Don’t know where I got that information, though. There are 1890’s phot...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:51 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
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- Views: 1987
Re: US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
Report of the Quartermaster General of the State of New Jersey for the Year 1883 , Newton, N. J., Thomas G. Bunnell, Printer. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007112422;view=1up;seq=9 Page 67, refers to: "11 McClellan saddles, seated, 1 McClellan saddle, cavalry, " What is ...
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:33 pm
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- Topic: 1st and 2nd platoon troop "D" 6th sq
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- Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:32 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: German, Prussian Field Artillery Six Horse Team Harness and Saddles
- Replies: 3
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- Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: 1830's-40's US Dragoon Saddle
- Replies: 49
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Re: 1830's-40's US Dragoon Saddle
Todd,
How close is the saddle in the Cowan’s Auction photograph to the Federal ranger saddle?
How close is the saddle in the Cowan’s Auction photograph to the Federal ranger saddle?
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:57 am
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- Topic: Rolling Kitchen
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Re: Rolling Kitchen
I think that is a ‘Taylor’ model rolling kitchen. Note there are four horses pulling this somewhat light load.Pat Holscher wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:04 pm 00499v.jpg
Germans watching U.S. Army kitchen going through Treves, Germany, December 1, 1918.
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:35 am
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: Saddler CoH Sam Belasco LG
- Replies: 4
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Re: Saddler CoH Sam Belasco LG
Okay! That makes sense.
Thanks, Roy.
Thanks, Roy.
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:37 am
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: Saddler CoH Sam Belasco LG
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1393
Re: Saddler CoH Sam Belasco LG
Will someone please enlighten me as to what ‘CoH’ means? It is a term with which I am not familiar.
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:51 pm
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- Topic: The 30th Division in the Querrien Area, October 23 - November 19, 1918
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Re: The 30th Division in the Querrien Area, October 23 - November 19, 1918
That funny, stiff-legged walk in WWI films is due to the number of frames per second taken by the camera not being the same as the number of frames the projector is projecting. Philip Sauerlender has a projector that compensates of that and it makes a great deal of difference in the quality of the v...
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:52 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: The 30th Division in the Querrien Area, October 23 - November 19, 1918
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Re: The 30th Division in the Querrien Area, October 23 - November 19, 1918
Some of the reviewing officers seem to be riding McClellans.
Some of the troops are carrying Lewis guns.
This presentation is in dire need of some of Philip’s projector magic.
Some of the troops are carrying Lewis guns.
This presentation is in dire need of some of Philip’s projector magic.
- Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:44 am
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- Topic: Third Battalion 13th Regiment Heavy Field Artillery, Fourth Division, in rest camp on hillside near Andelot. 155-mm. gun
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Re: Third Battalion 13th Regiment Heavy Field Artillery, Fourth Division, in rest camp on hillside near Andelot. 155-mm.
The problem was that the loads were getting too heavy for the horses to handle. The 4.7-inch Guns and 155mm Howitzers were just about the limit of what horse traction could handle. 155mm guns, 21cm howitzers and 240mm howitzers took a great deal more tractive power than horses were capable of provid...
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:26 am
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- Topic: Third Battalion 13th Regiment Heavy Field Artillery, Fourth Division, in rest camp on hillside near Andelot. 155-mm. gun
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Re: Third Battalion 13th Regiment Heavy Field Artillery, Fourth Division, in rest camp on hillside near Andelot. 155-mm.
155mm Howitzers, Model of 1916. Transportation was eight horses pulling the howitzer and a limber, and eight horses pulling the two caissons, one of which served as the limber. These were converted to pneumatic tires and air-brakes after WWI and were still in combat service in WWII. They were still ...
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:39 pm
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- Topic: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
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Re: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
This is the only effort at camouflage prior to WWI that I have ever seen. They are trying to make it difficult for the observer to determine exactly what he is seeing. http://www.starforts.com/gr/monroe/lincolngun.jpg The Lincoln Gun, the first 15-inch Rodman Gun, mounted at Fort Monroe during the U...
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:57 pm
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- Topic: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
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Re: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
Several years later we were at a firepower demonstration and I had my crew at the position of ‘At Ease,’ waiting for the thing to start. In the Civil War enlisted saluted with the hand farthest from the officer and palm outward like the French. I heard someone shout my name and I turned around and ...
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:32 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
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Re: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
Our city has a couple of these M1918s that they've moved to a frontier era reconstructed fort on the edge of town, but which they have repainted some years ago to sort of a mustard like color, which I'm told was the correct color for them. It's sort of an odd location for them, but it works okay as...
- Tue May 22, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
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Re: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
Good story Couvi. I like it. This is a link for the page of original photos of the M1918 Limber and Caisson: http://www.lovettartillery.com/US_Artillery_Vehicles_Ph.html Notice that all of the wartime era photos show the limber, caisson, and gun with the two color camouflage and the 1927 photo take...
- Tue May 22, 2018 6:03 am
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
- Replies: 23
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Re: RE: US M1918 Caisson for the "French 75mm"
I was trying to prompt you to recount it. Well, if you insist! Well, this was in the time when the old souls roamed the earth, and the was Chief of Staff at Fort Sill and the Post Commander were crazy. The Post Commander wanted to take a couple of reproduction Civil War cannon and shoot them for th...
- Mon May 21, 2018 8:05 pm
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- Topic: Is this Roy Elderkins old unit?
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Re: Is this Roy Elderkins old unit?
roy elderkin wrote: ↑Tue May 15, 2018 1:02 pm S
Sorry Couvi I should have said a little more. Because the team are working at a slower pace that of walk, this method of marching was adopted to keep the pace of the team. It works very well and, it helps to add to the circumstances and reverence to the funeral..]
It is very elegant.