![]() This new army was called the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and Gettysburg was but one battlefield in the campaign to put Americans back to work. The enemy was an economic depression that had, at its height, put an estimated fifteen million Americans out of work and denied them the opportunity to support their communities, families, and themselves. Rather than learn about military strategy and tactics, these men were taught about the conservation of the nation’s natural resources. Instead of shouldering rifles, these volunteers were armed with shovels, saws, and pickaxes. Composed of young men, this new volunteer army was unlike any one created by the United States government before. Meade led their armies to Gettysburg, a new army arrived. In the summer of 1934, some seventy years after generals Robert E. In my book “Civil War Artillery – A Pictorial Introduction”, I discuss these shells and fuses in more detail (see pictures). When the cannon discharged, the flame from the explosion ignited this powder train. This exposed a section in the horseshoe-shaped horizontal mealed powder train, which is covered by a thin sheet of tin. The artillerist used a metal punch to pierce the thin metal at the desired time marking. The disk has time markings indicated in seconds and quarter-seconds graduated up to 5 1/4 seconds. It was recovered by a laborer in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at the Gettysburg Battlefield during 1934 – 1936 (see pictures). ![]() ![]() The time fuse is contained in a tin and lead disk (see pictures). It is named after its inventor, Belgian Army Captain Charles G. This is another nice piece being offered, it is an excavated Confederate Bormann time fuse. ![]()
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