The Atlantic: The Civil War

[SaltwaterServr]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/

This is a 3 part series. You'll remember they ran a 20+ part series on WW2.

Most of these, save one, are new to me.

#22, interesting shot sabots in the foreground for the cannon in the background. The rest, well, words aren't there.

 

[LeonDixson]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/

This is a 3 part series. You'll remember they ran a 20+ part series on WW2.

Most of these, save one, are new to me.

#22, interesting shot sabots in the foreground for the cannon in the background. The rest, well, words aren't there.

Thanks. I really enjoyed the WW2 series. I'll check this one out too.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

It was only recently that the "Harvest of Death" Gettysburg shot was identified on the battlefield... Meaning they knew approximately where on the field (the Union left– somewhere between Cemetery Ridge and the Emmittsburg Road) but they didn't know specifically where.

 

[Longboysfan]

Great link to pictures.

 

[iceberg]

wow - those are some amazing shots!

 

[YosemiteSam]

Awesome as usual.

Thanks Salt.

 

[jubal]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/

This is a 3 part series. You'll remember they ran a 20+ part series on WW2.

Most of these, save one, are new to me.

#22, interesting shot sabots in the foreground for the cannon in the background. The rest, well, words aren't there.

I wondered how they fired grape and shot shells,this is the first time I have ever seen this container,you called it a sabot.
I even clicked on the enlargement button to get a closer look at all the details on each picture.
I really enjoy all the old time pictures,no matter what they are of. Keep them coming.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I wondered how they fired grape and shot shells,this is the first time I have ever seen this container,you called it a sabot.
I even clicked on the enlargement button to get a closer look at all the details on each picture.
I really enjoy all the old time pictures,no matter what they are of. Keep them coming.

A Noob Saibot. That was a typo on his part.

 

[DFWJC]

I had seen this just recently--amazing shots.

What really astounds me is that this was only 150 years ago. It seems like it should be so much further back in time.

 

[ethiostar]

Very cool pics, thanks for posting.

 

[burmafrd]

one problem is that many of these photographs were posed. One famous one from Gettysburg showing a dead soldier in some rocks with a rifle leaning up against a rock was posed.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I wondered how they fired grape and shot shells,this is the first time I have ever seen this container,you called it a sabot.
I even clicked on the enlargement button to get a closer look at all the details on each picture.
I really enjoy all the old time pictures,no matter what they are of. Keep them coming.

Here's a bad wiki article on sabots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot

The plastic cup on a shotgun shell used on smaller bird shot is technically a sabot.

At close range you really don't need a sabot device on any kind of shot. On any type of muzzle-loading artillery piece you can load the shot directly after the powder depending on the distance you wish to range to on the battlefield. The trick though is getting the shot-charge compacted enough to produce the amount of pressure you need to fire at maximum distance. Too much shot/packing in front of the powder, and you get the cannon in the photo that had exploded.

I'm guessing the sabot in the war photos is used as troops muster for an attack. The shot is too small for anything else, but too big for a close in attack where grape shot would be preferred.

I had seen this just recently--amazing shots.

What really astounds me is that this was only 150 years ago. It seems like it should be so much further back in time.

Another number to mull over, the United States had only declared independence 85 years before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.

There's a chance that someone was born and could remember the Revolution as well as living through the Civil War. What I'd give to hear their stories today.