Uniforms

Paraguayan artillery

The gunners of the river batteries.

Paraguayan artillery
Paraguayan artillery, 1866: two gun crewmen and an officer. Reconstruction.
Uniform
Like the infantry: red shirt, white trousers or chiripá, barefoot
Insignia
Tricolor badge on the kepi
Pieces
Almost all smoothbore
Flying artillery
Three regiments of four batteries of six guns

The gunners served cannons that were almost all smoothbore, in field batteries and in the great batteries of Humaitá and Curupayty. At Curupayty, the artillery in José Eduvigis Díaz's trench tore the allied columns apart with canister.

◊ Reconstruction.Apart from the tricolor badge on the kepi, mentioned by a single source, no detail specific to the artillery is documented.

Sources: ABC Color, the weapons of the Paraguayan soldiers (Soto Vera, 2013); Daniel E. Soubie, “El ejército paraguayo”.

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