[PRCo] Re: PRC 313A-317-1202 Franchise Car

[Dennis Fred Cramer]

I have a feeling you are looking in the wrong direction with the term 
Battery.  It is more than likely a military term, meaning a collection of 
artillery.  This long link gives a picture of the vast number of Batteries 
in Pittsburgh during the Civil War.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6ALdQsgJmM8C&pg=RA1-PA195&lpg=RA1-PA195&dq=Fort+McKee+-+Civil+War+Battery&source=bl&ots=aohMIM7S17&sig=FbGmGtzU9POdOkOBBlw-wLBiFuY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result


Dennis F. Cramer
      Trombone