Artillery at 1863 Gettysburg

[50th VA Corporal]

During the battle of Gettysburg what types and quantity of artillery pieces were present on each side?

Were any batteries on either side totally decimated or rendered useless from the battles?

[mladair]

Good starting point might be to look at the book "Civil War Artillery at Gettysburg" by Philip M. Cole.

-Matt Adair

[50th VA Corporal]

I had the book - gave it away as a Christmas present and forgot the facts....

[David Einhorn]

The Army.mil web site provides that information:
http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/weaponry/artillery.html

[flattop32355]

Would have been nice if the site had given the Federal/Confederate breakdown for number of guns for the Napoleons like they did for every other gun.

So, it appears that by mid-1863, the ANV had been able to retire most of it's less effective guns and howitzers for the more accurate/effective ones.

[lincolnsguard]

There were horses. Lots and lots of horses.

[billwatson2]

Oddly enough the site David kindly provided, even though it is a U.S. Army site, seemingly has the wrong number of dead for the battle of Gettysburg: 51,112. That's total casualties, isn't it?

http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/stati...tatistics.html

[David Einhorn]

Oddly enough the site David kindly provided, even though it is a U.S. Army site, seemingly has the wrong number of dead for the battle of Gettysburg: 51,112. That's total casualties, isn't it? ...

Very confusing, there seems to be a lot of blanks in the spaces for numbers of casualties in The Official Records. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/...ntent=044/0340

[billwatson2]

Dyer's Compendium, Union losses for the battle: 3,070 killed, 14,497 wounded, 5,434 captured and missing. Total, 23,001. I'm looking for the Confederate numbers.

[RJSamp]

Bill: researcher's have been looking for accurate CSA numbers for nearly 149 years......

Here's a decent analysis: http://gburginfo.brinkster.net/Casualties.htm

The official CSA Numbers were way too low.....