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Order your limited edition Stivers prints through our easy online ordering system, or download an order form and mail it to the Ordnance Corps Association business office with your payment.
| Celebrating Excellence |
$175.00 |
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| Service On The Line OR Service On Time |
$175.00 |
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| Both prints #2 and #3 *SAVE* |
$200.00 |
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More than any other contemporary military artist, Don Stivers' popularity has grown on both a national and international scale at an unprecedented rate.
Don Stivers has created works of art spanning everything from illustrating book jackets to the opening of the American West, but most recently is best known for his prolific production of paintings whose theme is the American Civil War.
Stivers chooses, as subjects for his military paintings, events both momentous for the nation and historically significant for the individuals involved in each painting. Through the eyes of the individual we see the fate of nations unfold. |
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"Celebrating Excellence - The Tradition Continues"
The very soul of a unit is symbolized in the Colors under which it fights, for they record the past glories, stand guardian over its present destiny, and ensure inspiration for its future. In the past, the Colors led the unit into battle. "When in action, resolve not to part with the Colors, but with your life." Today, the Colors serve as a binding symbol of continuity and point of inspiration for the future. Commanders and Soldiers come and go, but the Colors remain steadfast. The "Casing of the Ordnance Center and Schools Colors" symbolizes the end of the Ordnance Corps 90 year affiliation with Aberdeen Proving Ground. A history rich (steep) in tradition, with a proud heritage of the many "Ordnance Warriors," Commissioned Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Soldiers that have served the United States of America in Peacetime and War. |
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C A S I N G O F T H E C O L O R S
Ordnance Center and Schools - APG, Maryland , May 8, 2009
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In March 1847, Major General Winfield Scott conducted an amphibious landing on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, just south of the port of Veracruz. Scott’s forces encircled and besieged the town, which was a fortified, walled city of 15,000 inhabitants, further protected by a massive stone fort, the Fortress of San Juan de Ulua, located about 1,000 yards off shore. One of Scott’s units was the Rocket and Howitzer Battery, commanded and manned by soldiers of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department.
Siege batteries were emplaced, and bombardment of the city commenced on March 22. The Howitzer and Rocket Battery’s light 12-pound mountain howitzers were used to protect the infantry, which in turn were protecting the siege batteries. At about 10:00 PM on March 24, from a position on the beach at Punta Hornos forward of a factory or building referred to in American accounts as the “limekiln”, the battery’s rocketeers fired forty Congreve rockets into Veracruz. The fort at the southern end of the city (Fort de Santiago) returned fire, without apparent effect (no U.S. casualties). |
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Ordnance Rocket and Howitzer Battery
Veracruz, Mexico March 25, 1847
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 During the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, fighting first broke out on the morning of 1 July 1863 northwest of the town. By mid-afternoon, Union troops from the Army of the Potomac's I Corps, to include BG Solomon Meredith's famous Iron Brigade, with its distinctive black hats, was conducting a fighting retreat from McPherson's Ridge to Seminary Ridge, being driven back by MG Henry Heth's Confederate division from GEN Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
The Union troops had almost expended their 60 rounds of ammunition when a column of ten wagons from the First Division, I Corps, summoned by the division commander, suddenly galloped over Seminary Ridge and turned north, moving up the small valley behind the Union line on east McPherson's Ridge. Soldiers tossed out ammunition boxes while the wagon train commander, Ordnance Sergeant Jerome A. Watrous, smashed off the lids with an axe. The timely delivery of 75,000 rounds kept the I Corps in the fight, allowing the Union to hold the key ground of Cemetery Hill south of the town at day's end, where the North would anchor its defense during the next two days of battle. |
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Ordnance Mule Train Charge
Gettysburg July 1, 1863
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