GDG- Arty Anti-personnel Effectiveness

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/27/06 8:29:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rkadas at sbcglobal.net writes:

> It was my understabding that standars U.S. cannister rounds were loaded 
> with spherical iron or lead submunitions averaging 1.5 inches in diameter. 

Actually, I believe they started out with canister balls about 1 inch in 
diameter, and this got smaller as the war went on (the desire being to increase 
the number of balls).  Perhaps you are thinking of grape shot which, despite the 
poets, was not a standard Army round during the Civil War.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT