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JJDESIGNS NEWS UPDATE 15th SEPTEMBER 2025
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION, JUNE 9th, 1863
UNION ARTILLERY
The Union artillery was organized into Heavy Artillery and Field Artillery. The latter was also divided into Light Artillery and Horse Artillery.
During the Civil War the tendency was to concentrate close support at infantry or cavalry division level, with several batteries concentrated within an artillery brigade, under the command of a senior officer.
At Brandy Station, both sides had batteries of horse artillery. Confederate horse artillery, due to the South having trouble supplying horse for artillery teams as well as horses to ride, meant that Confederate batteries were standardized at four field pieces each, which was two less than their Union counterparts.
By 1863, most Union Horse Artillery Batteries consisted of six 3-in. Ordnance Rifles. These guns were comparatively light, accurate and safe.
The most technically proficient and best drilled of the arms in the Union Army was the Artillery.
New Union artillery sets will be available throughout 2026.
There will be enough Union artillery sets to counteract the previously released Confederate artillery Battery!
UNION CAVALRY PICQUET, OR COMMANDERS ESCORT.
A picket is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance.
A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket one soldier is fresh, having just started the picket, while the other is ready to be relieved. Although each soldier is required to maintain watch for the full duration of a shift, halfway through each shift a new soldier is put on watch.
The mounted figures can also be used to represent a troop, accompanying a commander on the battlefield.
Best wishes,
john jenkins
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION, JUNE 9th, 1863
UNION ARTILLERY
The Union artillery was organized into Heavy Artillery and Field Artillery. The latter was also divided into Light Artillery and Horse Artillery.
During the Civil War the tendency was to concentrate close support at infantry or cavalry division level, with several batteries concentrated within an artillery brigade, under the command of a senior officer.
At Brandy Station, both sides had batteries of horse artillery. Confederate horse artillery, due to the South having trouble supplying horse for artillery teams as well as horses to ride, meant that Confederate batteries were standardized at four field pieces each, which was two less than their Union counterparts.
By 1863, most Union Horse Artillery Batteries consisted of six 3-in. Ordnance Rifles. These guns were comparatively light, accurate and safe.
The most technically proficient and best drilled of the arms in the Union Army was the Artillery.
New Union artillery sets will be available throughout 2026.
There will be enough Union artillery sets to counteract the previously released Confederate artillery Battery!
UNION CAVALRY PICQUET, OR COMMANDERS ESCORT.
A picket is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance.
A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket one soldier is fresh, having just started the picket, while the other is ready to be relieved. Although each soldier is required to maintain watch for the full duration of a shift, halfway through each shift a new soldier is put on watch.
The mounted figures can also be used to represent a troop, accompanying a commander on the battlefield.
Best wishes,
john jenkins
