13inch Mortar Crew
B Company
1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment
Siege of Yorktown
April 12-May 4,1862
Battery Commander (Captain)
Gun Commander (Corporal) and four artillerymen
The 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment was organized in Washington, D.C., from 4th Conn. Infantry, January 2, 1862. Attached to Military District of Washington to April, 1862. Siege artillery, Army Potomac, to May, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July, 1862.
Duty at Fort Richardson, defenses of Washington, D.C., until April, 1862. Ordered to the Peninsula, Va., in charge of siege train Army Potomac, April 2. Siege of Yorktown April 12-May 4.
This is my crew for the BGT 13 inch mortar.
If it ever stops raining here I will be able to photograph the crew with the gun outdoors!
The gun crew is made up of its commader, a corporal, and four artillerymen. Also in the images is the Company/Battery commander, a captain. In the references I have found they referred to the various companies and not batteries, maybe due to their original organization as an infantry unit.
The whole group:
Gun Commander(Corporal) and the rest of the crew with the “tools of the trade” that come with the BGT mortar:
The four artillerymen, note the variation in the height of each artilleryman:
The gun commander (Corporal):
The Company/Battery commander (Captain)
Finally a wideshot of the whole group:
All figures have reduced DML bodies, DID HS, in some cases with added facila hair and repainted. BGT hats, uniforms and equipment. Rio Rondo buckles on the kepis. Rio Rondo leather belts with BGT beltbuckles. Brogans from BGT and boots of the officer and corporal from SST.
As usual with the BGT navy color it comes out with a definite purple tinge on the indoor images. In the case of the officer in person the trousers and the tunic are almost the same color and in the images they seem to be completely different.
The various pieces of the mortar come with the BGT mortar and I weathered them a bit with a quick pas of the airbrush and some dry-brushing. Used one of my generic bases as a setting for the figures.
Très beau groupe d'artilleurs, il me tarde de voir les photos en plein air avec la pièce de mortier ! Superbe travail de reconstitution historique et belle réalisation. 
