As I related in this post TMP link the Mississippi Department of Archives and History's "History Is" lunch program today was about the Starkville Civil War Arsenal, a private artillery museum in Starkville, Mississippi.
Mr. Duffy Neubauer owns and runs the museum which displays the fruits of his passion – Civil War artillery and all the ancillary carriages and equipment that a battery had.
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The program was very interesting as Neubauer talked about the standardization of gun carriages (or lack thereof with the Confederates), the other carriages (limbers, battery wagons, and forges) in the battery, and the various tools the battery had to have on hand. During the program he related how he discovered that his great-great uncle was a carriage maker in
Wisconsin and had actually built supply wagons for the Union army, a reproduction of which he has in his museum. At the end of the program he described the ambulance that he had built to Union specifications and how he finally discovered why Union artillery battery's included one ambulance on their establishment.
So if you are anywhere close to northeast Mississippi and are a Civil War buff, I highly recommend (based on this program) that you arrange a visit. And if you are a real Civil War buff, you can also visit the U.S.Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University on the outskirts of Starkville. Yes, you read that correctly, the Grant Presidential Library is in Mississippi, which also has another presidential library, that of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at his post-war home of Beauvoir in Gulfport.
Jim
P.S. I gotta arrange to go and visit the museum myself.