As it is at least twenty miles from the Fortress of the Rock to the opposite coast, we took the declaration of the Artillerist who expressed this opinion of the power of the gun with considerable allowance.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
Then he fell back with some of the troops a short distance and did some more standing around, until a Union Artillerist noticed him and threw a shell in his direction, when he fell back out of range, and again stood around until some one informed him that a body of 7,000 Federals was moving around the left flank.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
The official mind is everywhere hostile to new inventions; and Marmont suggestively remarks that Bonaparte's training as an Artillerist, and his experience of the inconvenience and expense resulting from the adoption of changes in that arm, had no slight influence in setting him against all innovations.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose