In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag [1] and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name. Grapeshot was used both ...

2024年9月28日 · A visit to the Museum’s Becoming Americans exhibit, which details the impact of the Revolutionary War on the Charleston area, reveals two examples of a deadly projectile called grapeshot. Grapeshot consists of a cluster of iron balls held together by a …

2021年11月11日 · Grapeshot was a close-range anti-personnel ammunition that once fired, the balls broke apart forming a rapidly expanding cone downrange resulting in a shotgun-like blast. Grapeshot was rarely employed beyond 200 yards as the multiple projectiles rapidly lost velocity upon discharge.

2021年9月22日 · Canister and its forerunner grapeshot were the most fearsome artillery projectiles of the Civil War. The large shot on the left is from a 24-pounder grapeshot charge. At right, an iron 12-pounder canister ball seems small in comparison, but needless to say it …

2022年6月6日 · The shot were stacked in layers around the post and a canvas bag stitched around the shot to hold them in place and keep its round shape. Most stands of quilted grape used 3 layers with 5 or 6 shot per layer. Depending on bore diameter, typical Civil War grape shot was as small as 2 inches and as large as 4.5 inches.

Grapeshot, cannon charge consisting of small round balls, usually of lead or iron, and used primarily as an antipersonnel weapon. Typically, the small iron balls were held in clusters of three by iron rings and combined in three tiers by cast-iron plates and a central connecting rod.

The Grape Shot was very effective for breaking up cavalry and infantry charges, or for keeping an enemy from advancing from their fixed positions (by air bursting over their heads). Grape Shot was also highly effective in Navies during sea battles. Grape Shot was capable of destroying sails and ship's rope rigging.

ぶどう弾（ぶどうだん、Grapeshot）は、弾子を詰め込んだ前装 滑腔砲（前装式大砲）用の砲弾。 帆走 軍艦の索具類破壊と人員殺傷を目的に考案され、 ヨーロッパ において 16世紀 から 19世紀 にかけて用いられた。

Grapeshot was devastatingly effective against massed infantry at short range. It was used to savage massed infantry charges quickly. Cannons would fire solid shot to attack enemy artillery and troops at longer range and switch to grape when they or nearby troops were charged.

This is the size and type of iron grapeshot fired at the Regulators as they advanced on the United States Arsenal at Springfield. The word grapeshot did not refer to the size of the ball; grapeshot could be much larger, depending on the size of the gun firing it.