Description
As a result of the length of the coastline of america, from the beginning American ordnance and engineers placed an emphasis on heavy artillery mounted in coastal defences. The Union army organised its ‘Heavy Artillery’ into separate regiments, uniformed and equipped in a different way. Whilst the Field Artillery used to be assigned around the fighting fronts Heavy Artillery units served the big guns in the forts and the defences of Washington. The Confederates did not differentiate forms of artillery and those who became referred to as Heavy Artillery did so through informal association relatively than formal designation. This book details the development and usage of the big guns.