Description: When the JOURNALwas first established, there was but one artillery of the United States and it consisted of 5 regiments. Each of these regiments had 12 batteries, of which 10 were coast batteries, and 2 were field batteries. This meant that at the time of the founding of the JOURNAL, five-sixths of all United States artillery was seacoast. The need for a journal was felt because the artillery was awakening from a long period of peacetime complacency that had...
Founded in 1892, Published from 1892 until 1922 as THE JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES ARTILLERY, Published from 1922 until 1948 as the COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL