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The most common field artillery pieces were mounted on carriages with 57" wheels, 14 spokes, tapered, and all wood except for the center bushings, the hub bands, and the tires. These pieces were 6 lb guns (Model 1841), 12 lb guns (Model 1841), 12 lb Napoleon gun-howitzers (Model 1857), 3" Ordinance Rifles, and 2.9" and 3" (10 lb) Parrot Rifles.
Prairie Carriages (1st and 2nd models) used 42" wheels; pack carriages used 36" wheels. The most common tubes on Prairie Carriages were the 12 lb Mountain/Pack Howitzers (Model 1841).
One very obscure carriage used 48" wheels; this was the carriage for the Woodruff gun, a small, light, and decidedly oddball piece whose main claim to fame is that Genl. Benjamin Grierson took a 6-gun battery of them with him on his famous raid through Mississippi (the subject of John Wayne's Horse Soldiers. Those 48" wheels were spindly, more buggy wheels than artillery, and, when Grierson reached Baton Rouge, it is said that no two wheels were alike, all having been repaired or replaced en route.
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