A Bit "New" For This Forum

[subdjoe]

But, since an article in it deals with Coast Artillery from the founding of our Republic until the early 1900s, I think that overall it is within the scope of this forum..

The March 1922 Journal of the United States Artillery.

REASON FOR STUDYING HISTORY OF THE
COAST ARTILLERY
Before deciding upon the training that should be given to the Coast
Artillery for field service, we should come to some conclusion in regard
to the duties that will be required of it. If we were guided only by the
experience of the year 1911, we should conclude that it would never be
used outside of the coast defenses otherwise than as infantry; if we
looked only to its record in the Civil War, we should say that it would
be used in the field only as light or horse artillery; if we were guided by
the discussions that preceded the separation in 1907, we should conclude
that it would never be used at all outside of the coast defenses.

[Cannoneer]

Thanks for posting the link, subdjoe, that's an interesting article (pp.199-220).

[subdjoe]

Thank you.  I thought it was.  If you go into the url 

http://www.airdefenseartillery.com/online/2010/Coast%20Artillery%20Journal/Extract/CA%201922/March%201922.pdf

and change March to some other month, you get other volumes of the Journal. Not all months work, but several I tried did.