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Field Artillery

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This photograph is part of the online exhibit, “Wildcats Never Quit: North Carolina in World War I" and is published courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.

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Soldiers riding horses pull caissons carrying cannons.

Size: 1538×1027

1st Lt. Samuel Saunders of the 317th Field Artillery Regiment, 81st Division took this photograph of fellow World War I soldiers riding horses that are pulling caissons, or wagons, carrying cannons. The 81st Division was also known as the “Wildcat Division.”