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CGSC. See Command and General Staff
College, U.S. Army.
Chaffee, Brig. Gen. Adna R., Jr., 164
Chambering. See under Guns.
Chancellorsville, battle of, 66, 72
Chapultapec, battle of, 44
Charleston, S.C., 8, 23
Chase, Maj. Gen. John, 105
Chickamauga, battle of, 63
Chickamauga Park, Ga., 88
Chippewa, battle of, 27
Circular error probable (CEP). See under
Missiles.
Civil War, 46, 47–73, 76, 82, 88, 108, 322
artillery
organization, 53–69, 71
production, 69
rifled, 71
role changes from offense to defense,
47, 71, 72, 73, 119
weapons, 49–53, 71
coastal defenses, 69, 73
Confederate artillery organization, 56, 59,
61, 63–64, 71
smoothbore artillery, 71
and volunteers, 54, 56
CLGP. See Ammunition, Cannon-launched
guided projectile.
Close air support, 246, 285, 299, 306, 321. See
also Air Force, U.S.
Cluster bomblets. See under Ammunition.
Coama, Puerto Rico, 91
Coast artillery, 27, 48, 49n12, 76. See also
Coast Artillery Corps; Coastal defense;
Harbor defense.
cannon, 22, 24, 37, 50, 75, 78–79, 83, 115
consolidation with antiaircraft and field artillery,
189, 192, 254, 294
and fire control, 95
and indirect laying, 96
and Journal of the United States Artillery, 102
and mines, 92
missions of, 78, 140
and officer assignments, 100
organization, 86, 90, 107, 254, 294
separation from field artillery, 75, 90, 92,
93, 100, 101
serving as field artillery, 109n47
and sound ranging, 150
and torpedoes, 92
Coast Artillery, 1st, 294
Coast Artillery Corps, 113, 115, 116, 143, 144
Coast Artillery School, 102. See also Artillery
School of Practice.
371
Coastal defense, coastal fortifications, 3,
17, 22, 24, 31, 32, 34, 37, 47, 53, 75,
90, 92, 323. See also Coast artillery;
Harbor defense.
in disrepair, 82
earthworks and armor plate, 69, 83
and Endicott board, 83
impact of rifled weapons on, 69, 73
improvements of, 77, 78, 83, 85
naval forces, 69
strengthening, 85
underwater mines and obstructions, 69, 83
viewed as obsolete, 140
Coehorn. See under Mortars.
Coëtquidan, France, 118
Cold Harbor, battle of, 72
Collins, General James L., 203, 211
Colored Troops, U.S., 56
COLT. See Combat observation and lasing
teams.
Columbus, N.M., 106
Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS),
254–55, 257
Combat Developments Command, U.S.
Army, 291
Combat observation and lasing teams
(COLT), 300
Combat service support, 306
Combined arms, 19, 93, 138, 220, 253–54, 279
Combined Arms Center, U.S. Army, 303–04
Command and General Staff College, U.S.
Army (CGSC), 246–47, 248, 249
Command and General Staff School, 152
Communications, 12, 95, 97, 107, 157, 305, 310
in atomic field army, 245
and counterfire, 290n16
in eight-gun batteries, 300
Field Artillery Digital Automatic
Computer, 263, 297
and Field Artillery School, 149
and fire direction, 154, 322
in fire support coordination center, 205n34
and fire support team vehicle, 300
and Hero board, 128
in Iraq, 321
in Korean War, 200
and massed artillery fire, 146, 150
and missiles and rockets, 216, 217, 227, 231
and multiple launch rocket system, 313
and Paladin howitzer, 289
signal duties transferred to field artillery, 317
and tactical fire direction system, 297, 320
target data and, 294
telegraph, 96