colt model 1900 30 cal gatling gun blueprints

MG Charles Griffin and staff officers posed in front of the Cummings House. Not to be outdone, he applied to a series of New York volunteer units and was enrolled to the roster of the newly-formed 185th New York Volunteer Infantry regiment’s C Company in the fall of 1864 and shipped off to the Petersburg Campaign in Northern Virginia. However, as the Civil War evolved, he promptly dropped out of school at the ripe old age of 20 in 1864 and sought an appointment to West Point, which was denied. The brand-new pleasure craft would, oddly enough, be called upon not once, but twice, to defend her country.īut first, let us speak of that great knickerbocker, Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn.Īs a young man, Schermerhorn came from a prominent Empire State family and, after a string of private schools and tutors, was accepted at what was then Columbia College for the Class of 1865. Here we see the pride of the New York Yacht Club, the steam patrol yacht Free Lance, in her newly-applied gray military scheme on duty off New York City, probably in August 1898. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. It would have been interesting to imagine them repelling an assault by the Kaiser’s infantrymen with such gear. 30-caliber Gatlings as late as October 1914. Army Coastal Artillery, stationed at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, details they were still practicing with their. The below unit return, from the 136th Company (Mine), U.S. Army/Navy Colt Gatlings acquired, model, caliber and number: Army after 1914, not a bad run considering only about 500~ in 20 different marks were acquired between 18.

Gatling guns trained on the Filipinos, near Manila, Philippine Islands LC-USZ62-136148 1893 modelsįurther, Gatlings were only fully retired by the U.S.

Colt model 1900 30 cal gatling gun blueprints