US CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY TOW HOOK

US CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY TOW HOOK

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A good example of a Civil War artillery tow hook. This one measures 13-inches overall- they often vary slightly in length but have the same configuration—all iron construction with attached claw-hammer head and the handle bent at the end to form a hook for withdrawing the thick fiber wadding – the tow- used to stabilize and cushion artillery rounds during transport. These are key part of any artillery collection or display. With a battery going into action, when a gunner needed one, he really needed one.

This largely smooth metal with deep bluish-brown color and scattered, thin light brown surface rust. The are some expected dings from use, but no bend or cracks. The hammer head has both claws. The hook was made with a flattened, tapering point, the better to get under and extract the packing material. Please see our photos.

Gibbon listed these in his Artillerist’s Manual as among the “implements and equipments for field carriages, specifically those for a gun or howitzer carriage, to be carried in the implement trays, or in other vacant spaces in the ammunition chest,” along with the gunner’s haversack, tube pouch, vent punch, gunner’s pincers, and pendulum hausse.” (With some other elements carried in the tube pouch, etc.)

Gibbon describes the tow hook itself as: “made of round iron, with a hook at one end, and a small hammer welded to the other. It is used for unpacking the ammunition chests of field-carriages, the hammer being used for making any repairs on the strapped shot and shell and fixed ammunition, which may be found necessary, or for any other purpose.”

This is a key piece of gear in any artillery collection or display. We have been lucky enough to acquire a few examples from the artillery portion of an old and respected collection.  [sr][ph:L]

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