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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
III. Composition, establishment, and equipment of mountain 
BATTERIES, AND LADING OF MULES. 
The composition of mountain batteries . 
8. For tactical and administrative reasons, the rifled guns of a mountain 
battery with their ammunition and other materiel , the mules for transport, 
the men for serving the guns and for the care and guidance of the mules, 
and finally the officers and non-commissioned officers for supervision and 
command, are reunited into batteries, termed 3-pr. rifle mountain batteries. 
As the nature of the country and style of combat consequent on it, 
generally speaking, are such as only to admit of a small number of guns 
being engaged in a single action, the mountain batteries consist of four 
3-pr. rifled mountain guns only. 
'Establishment of a mountain battery. 
9. Strength of a mountain battery on the war and peace footing 
War. 
Peace. 
War. 
Peace. 
Personnel — continued. 
Personnel. 
1 
1 
Smith. 
{ 1 } 
Captain, 1st or 2nd. 
1 
1 
Saddler. 
1 
1st Lieutenant. 
— 
— 
1 
2 
2nd n 
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3 
3 
Fireworkers. 
— 
— 
Horses and Mules. 
2 
4 
Serjeants. 
4 
4 
Mountain saddle horses. 
5 
6 
Corporals. 
46 
8 
Mules. 
1 
1 
Trumpeter. 
2 
1 
n spare. 
8 
16 
Bombardiers. 
— 
— 
31 
22 
1st class gunners. 
62 
13 
46 
32 
2nd a a 
Carriages, gun and draft. 
2 
4 
Officers* servants. 
4 
4 
3-pr. guns. 
1 
— 
Farrier. ! 
I 2 
2 
2-horse country carts. 
The following table gives the stores of a 3-pr. mountain battery:—• 
List of stores of a 3-pr. mountain battery on the peace (P) and 
on the war (W) footing . 
Gun. 
P. 
W. 
Nature of Stores. 
Gun. 
P. 
W. 
Nature of Stores. 
Guns and fittings. 
Gun equipment stores. 
1 
4 
4 
Guns, 3-pr., pattern 1863, rifled, 
1 
4 
6 
Scales, tangent, brass, pattern 
bronze, mountain. 
1863, rifled mountain gun. 
1 
4 
5 
Handspikes, 31 , 1 // long. 
Gun carriages. 
— 
4 
2 
Glasses, binocular, with case 
1 
4 
5 
Carriages, gun, plate-iron, moun¬ 
and strap.* 
tain, complete. 
1 
4 
4 
Drifts, gun, vent. 
* The binocular glasses are in charge of the battery commander, and are given out to the 
officers for use on service. 
