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A common gabion was a cylindrical basket between 33 and 36 inches high and an exterior diameter of about two feet. Structurally gabions consisted of two basic elements: pickets and rods. Pickets suitable for common gabions were about 42 inches long and between one and one and one-half inches thick. Ten to 14 of these pickets were arranged upright and in a circular pattern so that the rods, composed of small branches between one-half and one inch thick, could be woven around the pickets to form the gabion web. Both the top and bottom of the web was tied using pliable withes, wire, or heavy string to keep the rods from jolting lose from the pickets. The pickets extended four to six inches outward from both the top and bottom of the web and were sharped to permit them to be easily driven into the ground or to more firmly grasp fascines laid across them or other gabions.

There were a number of different types of gabions, some with slightly different dimensions. Sap gabions were about two feet in height, of the normal diameter, and were well finished using light material. Being shorter and lighter than common gabions, sap gabions were supposed to be easier to handle in the narrow and dangerous confines at the head of a sap and could be filled faster to produce a musket-proof barrier. Its primary disadvantage was that it produced a rather short parapet, even with a fascine capping, that required a deeper trench than a common gabion to provide sufficient cover for troops moving through the sap. Sap Gabions had fallen out of general use by the time of the Civil War. Battery gabions and Trench gabions had approximately the same dimensions as common gabions, but were usually made of thicker material and therefore were of somewhat rougher construction. A Stuffed gabion, otherwise known as a sap roller, was a rather large gabion stuffed with pickets used to cover the brigade of sappers advancing the head of a sap.

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