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NOTES ON ARTILLERY. 
The 6pr. with pack-mules would have 196 rounds in the first case 
or 211 in the second; the howitzer 188 or 155. 
The double supply would give under the 1 st hypothesis 6 carriages 
more for the 6 prs. and 3 for the howitzers, total 9, which would bring 
the number of carriages to 31 and the number of rounds to 324 per 
gun and 300 per howitzer. 
Under the 2nd hypothesis the double supply would require 9 gun 
waggons and 4 howitzer waggons, making 13 waggons and would 
bring the number of carriages to 39. Difference in the waggons in 
addition under the 2nd hypothesis : 11. 
There would be 406 rounds per gun, and 310 per howitzer. 
The 2nd hypothesis gives then 476 rounds, but employs 11 carriages 
and 64 horses more; now these 64 horses might be replaced by pack- 
mules with 1500 rounds, but the proportion of 324 for Opr. and 300 
for howitzer is sufficient and forms exactly a double supply. 
In comparing a 12 pr. under the mule hypothesis we find 136 
rounds in waggon, 10 in limber and two mules with 12 each, total, 170 
rounds; difference, 44 rounds or 3 horses. 
In the double supply let us add 2 waggons and we shall have 306 
rounds. Under the 2nd hypothesis there would be 6 waggons, which 
would make 405 rounds. In drawing up a scale, put pack-mules, 
double supply: 5 mules (3 in front line, 2 in the second at the park) and 
of the 3 remaining, 2 with the gun, one with the divisional reserve; 
the 2 of the double supply would be with the general park. 
We should count also in each artillery division 2 S.A.A. waggons, 
so that wherever there is an artillery officer there may be also some 
cartridges, and I believe also 2 mules carrying 6000 rounds (see note 
E). A division being supposed to have 3 batteries that would give 
the value of 7 waggons or 108,000 rounds; as the division is supposed 
to consist of 12 battalions with 36 mules or 108,000 cartridges, it 
would thus have 216,000 rounds which would give 27 rounds a man to 
8000 infantry. 
We will suppose the army up to full strength. The company has 
136 men; take away 3 officers, 2 drummers, 2 pioneers, 1 musician, 
there remain 128. Taking away the fifteenth part for the difference 
between full strength and the number present, we get 120 present; 
this, for six companies, makes 720 muskets. In subtracting on^y the 
fifteenth we suppose the commencement of the campaign, for, a fter a 
few engagements and marches, the difference will be much more con¬ 
siderable. 
The 3 battalion-mules will carry 9000 rounds or 12 per man. In 
adding to the divisional supply half a waggon per battalion we should 
have 7500 rounds or 10 per man; in adding half a pack-mule we shall 
still have 2 rounds a man, total 24, which for a division of 12 battalions 
demands 12 waggons and 6 mules, of which half for each battery 
reserve, and half for the divisional park. 
A half waggon, or 11 rounds per man, will be with the park of the 
army corps; a half mule per battalion with the same park (which 
gives 2 rounds a man) : so that the division will possess there 12 
waggons and 6 mules. 
