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Artillery (Winter) Mural
In the most violent of the murals, cannoneers under heavy fire struggle to push their 3-inch Ordnance Rifle through the snow and into position before reloading. Their situation is dire. The limber that tows the gun has been wrecked and many of the horses killed. The drivers of the caisson urge their teams forward up the hill beyond.
The artillery was the smallest branch of service during the Civil War, and Virginia organized one hundred independent batteries. Each battery consisted of four to six guns, forty to one hundred men, more than seventy horses, and an assortment of vehicles. |