Reply To: What makes a grand battery so grand?

[repiqueone]

The massing of a Grand Battery must have looked a lot like rush hour in any major city.  Think of the tail on that dog!  Multiple limbers, caissons,wagons ,horses, intervals laterally, and the depth of the support equipment!  Not to be assembled or broken up on a whim!  The traffic control had to require the highest skills and only done on the highest authority.  It probabbly didn’t take more than a few batteries to be called GRAND…a grand headache for the artillery command, to be sure!

Sounds to me that it would be enough of a challenge that it was only considered prior to battle, and seldom dispersed (except in defeat) until the battle closed.