Nothing of this kind is supplied; but battery commanders can readily improvise one for field marches and encampments and find it exceedingly useful. Obtain two good substantial wheels and an axle; attach shafts; build a suitable framework thereon to sustain a large barrel, which should have a faucet in the rear end and an opening for filling it on top.
LIGHT-[ARTILLERY HARNESS].
The harness is made of black leather, black buckles, and without ornaments other than black leather rosettes. In connecting the principal parts of the harness and in attaching the horse to the limber hooks, hooking into rings or links only at the point where a depression is made in the ring or link, are used.
The Bridle (a) is similar to the regulation cavalry bridle except that it has black buckles and black rosettes. The coupling-rein of the off horse can be lengthened or shortened as desired, and has a snap-hook for attaching the end to a ring on the saddle of the near horse. The lash end of the reins of the off horse passes through a roller on the pommel of his saddle and falls to the left, convenient to the driver's hand, so that by pulling it the horse is set back in his harness directly to the rear.
The Halter is of leather, with leather halter-strap.
The Saddle.
Nomenclature.—(A) pommel; (B) cantle; (C) side-bar; (D) quarter-straps, front, spider; (E) quarter-straps, rear, spider; (F) quarter-strap ring or spider-ring; (G) cincha; (H) cincha-strap; (I) cincha-ring; (K) stirrup-loop; (L) stirrup-strap; (M) stirrup-tread; (N) stirrup hood; (P) rings; (R) cantle-staple; (S) saddle-bag stud; (aa) (bb) coat-straps or thongs; (ii) cincha-ring safes.
Fig. 67.
The regulation McClellan saddle, with saddle bags (b), [Fig. 68], is used. Some batteries are supplied with fair-leather seats which are to be preferred to black leather ones. Leather-covered wooden stirrups for officers; enlisted men use brass stirrups. Saddles of horses in harness have a pommel-ring to which the collar-strap (v) is hooked; and saddles of wheel-horses have, securely fastened to them, cantle-hooks (k), which serve to hold the single-trees (i) when detached from the double-tree. These hooks can be removed and attached to another saddle, if necessary, in the field. A loop is placed on the hair cincha to support the martingale (n). There are three sizes of cinchas, viz., 16-inch, 18-inch, and 20-inch.