Dana Lombardy on “The Long Arm of Mr. Lincoln’s Army”
Dana Lombardy
Dana presented diagrams and data to show how the artillery evolved in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, and compare its effectiveness to the guns used by their primary opponent, Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Gun types, numbers and organization, plus a look back at Napoleon’s artillery at Waterloo were also covered.
Tom Roza provided the following summary of Dana’s talk.