Pattern for an Eight Inch Howitzer Cartridge.
Document 1799The pattern is shown for an eight-inch howitzer cartridge. The length of the cartridge should be cut the way the flannel stretches least. Elliot recommends that a paper pattern should be cut from the flannel version since repeated cuttings will result in a smaller pattern as was the case with the six-pound one given before. .
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[illustration of a dotted-line pattern for a cartridge bag]
Pattern for an 8 Inch Howitz Cartridge
G. = 1b..8 — 4. 6
L = 12 — 4
The length of this cartridge to be at the way of the Flannel that it works well, and the person who will them had better cut a large pattern from this, for by a brisk cutting from this small pieces will be cut off, from time to time until it will be too small as was the case with a 6 hound one given before. and that one after cutting 20 should be applyed to this and see that it is not too small— and if it is cut another from this, and so on—
[Oct. 21]
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Recived of Captain Elliot— 28th Oct 99.
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The pattern is shown for an eight-inch howitzer cartridge. The length of the cartridge should be cut the way the flannel stretches least. Elliot recommends that a paper pattern should be cut from the flannel version since repeated cuttings will result in a smaller pattern as was the case with the six-pound one given before. .
Date
10/21/1799
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1799102190101
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Notable persons
Captain Elliot