Handbook for Light ArtilleryDyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
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Handbook for Light Artillery
Dyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
Artillery, Field and mountain
Rations, forage, medicines, veterinary medicines, instruments, and
bandages, leather and spare parts for repairs to harness, carriages,
etc., horseshoes, horseshoe-nails, blacksmith's, saddler's, and
carpenter's tools (if there be no battery-wagon and forge),
field-desk, with a supply of blanks, paper, envelopes, pens, ink, and
pencils, the necessary company-books, and a book of telegraph blanks,
ammunition (shell, shrapnel, canister, cartridges, fuzes, fuze-cutters,
friction-primers, lanyards), oil for harness, cosmoline for guns,
equipment and clothing for each man, number and kind of tents, Sibley
stoves, axes, hatchets, mauls, scythes, sickles, buckets, spades,
shovels, pickaxes, wagon-tongues, coupling-poles, hame-strings, open
links, odometer, rope, axle-grease, picket-rope, light jacks, lanterns,
matches, cooking utensils, personal outfit.
COOKING UTENSILS.
PACK IN BOX A.
75 150
Article. Men. Men.
Dishpans 2 3
Coffee-mill 1 1
Bread-knives 2 2
Meat-knives 2 2
Steel 1 1
Cleaver 1 1
Saw 1 1
Forks, carving 2 3
Forks, spit 2 2
Spoons, long 2 2
Can-openers 2 2
Ladles 2 2
Frying-pans 2 2
Small rations
PACK IN BOX B.
75 150
Article. Men. Men.
Coffee-boiler 1 2
Camp-kettles 4 6
Water-buckets 2 3
Dipper 1 1
Hash machine 1 1
1 axe, 1 spade, 1 shovel, tied together and fastened to outside of
box.
Put the camp-kettles inside the coffee-boilers.
Vinegar-keg, 1, Dutch ovens, 2, or Buzzacott oven, 1, for 75 men;
double the number for 150 men.
One of the boxes may be large enough to contain the Buzzacott oven. In
order to pack it put in the top inverted, and then invert the body of
the oven and set it inside the top.
EQUIPMENT AND CLOTHING FOR MARCHES.
OFFICERS' CLOTHING, EQUIPMENT, ETC.
An officer's equipment usually consists of sabre, revolver, and
ammunition, and a good binocular-glass. He should also be provided
with a compass, watch, knife, and notebook and pencil. A small watch
so fitted in a leather strap that it may be worn on the wrist is
recommended as very convenient.
The clothing and bedding carried will depend on the climate and the
character of the march. The following list contains about everything
one requires:
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