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1861-11-29 Charles A. Gates to Mr. & Mrs. Arad Gates Page 1

No 5 is guner  No 5 has a harvesack and he caries the aminitions to No 2. No 2 inserts the catrage No 6. takes the catrage from the limber box and passes it to No 5.  No 7 to No 5.  No 5 to No 2.  
No 8 is Chief of the cassion he seese to 
the dealing out of the aminition from 
the cassions boxes.  Now I will tell you the difference between the cassion  boxes and the limber box.  The limber box is atached to the canon.  When it is unlimbered it is like a cart.  The thing is stationary.  The box is about 2 and 1/2 feet square.  It holds a good many catrages.  So you see how the 
limber box is fix the casions boxes are 
on a wagon like the canon it unlimbers 
just like the canon. There is a box 
on the fore wheels just like the limber box and 2 boxes on the hind wheels just the same size as the limber box and just 
behind these boxes is a extra wheel caried for to ise and under is places for carrying tonngs ram rods sponges and wormers and there is a battry wagon and forge wagon with every thing for shoeing 
horses and carrying amanitions. There is 
a battery and forge to every battery.  We have had a grand change in our guns.  We are to have

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No 5 is guner No 5 has a harvesack and he caries the aminitions to No 2. No 2 inserts the catrage No 6. takes the catrage from the limber box and passes it to No 5. No 7 to No 5. No 5 to No 2. No 8 is Chief of the cassion he seese to the dealing out of the aminition from the cassions boxes. Now I will tell you the difference between the cassion boxes and the limber box. The limber box is atached to the canon. When it is unlimbered it is like a cart. The thing is stationary. The box is about 2 and 1/2 feet square. It holds a good many catrages. So you see how the limber box is fix the casions boxes are on a wagon like the canon it unlimbers just like the canon. There is a box on the fore wheels just like the limber box and 2 boxes on the hind wheels just the same size as the limber box and just behind these boxes is a extra wheel caried for to ise and under is places for carrying tonngs ram rods sponges and wormers and there is a battry wagon and forge wagon with every thing for shoeing horses and carrying amanitions. There is a battery and forge to every battery. We have had a grand change in our guns. We are to have