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Colors of the U.S. Coast Artillery Corps ~ ca. 1908

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By the 1890s, the Army had realized different training and tactics were needed for the artilleryman that manned the large, fixed artillery pieces in the forts that guarded the nation's ports and the light, mobile guns of the field artillery. In 1901, the Artillery regimental system was abolished. The Artillery branch was divided into 30 companies (batteries) of field artillery and 126 companies of coastal artillery. In 1907, because of the increasing specialization required and rapidly changing technology, Congress split the Artillery branch into separate Field Artillery and Coast Artillery Branches. Also in 1907, a separate Coast Artillery Corps was created with 170 companies and the Field Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia became the Coast Artillery School. In 1911, a new School of Fires for the training of Field Artillery officers was established at Fort Sill. These colors were the first Coast Artillery Corps Colors and are made of silk with embroidered decoration of the United State Army eagle and Artillery branch insignia. This pattern of colors was adopted in 1906 and is stll used today. These colors were recovered from a trash can at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1976. They were transferred from the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe in 2011 and mounted and framed here in 2012.

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