Traveling forge
（重定向自Forge Wagon）
![A reproduction traveling forge. Circa 1850s through 1860s U.S. blacksmith's traveling forge.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Traveling_Forge_built_by_David_Einhorn_author_of_the_book_Civil_War_Blacksmithing5454.jpg")
![Sketch of U.S. Civil War Traveling Forge from the Ordnance Manual of 1863.](/Images/godic/202501/13/WikipediaCWForgeDrawing5454.jpg")
![British 1840s Period Forge Wagon side view by Royal Engineers, British Service. Image is from Volume 1 of 6 volumes, An Aide-Memoire to the Military Sciences, 1845, Col. G.G. Lewis, senior editor.](/Images/godic/202501/13/British_1840s_Blacksmith_Traveling_Forge_Wagon5454.jpg")
![British 1840s Period Forge Wagon top view by Royal Engineers, British Service.](/Images/godic/202501/13/British_1840s_Blacksmith_Traveling_Forge_Wagon_top_view5454.jpg")
A traveling forge, when combined with a limber, comprised wagons specifically designed and constructed as blacksmith shops on wheels to carry the essential equipment necessary for blacksmiths, artisans (called Artificiers in the Army) and farriers to both shoe horses and repair wagons and artillery equipment for both U.S. and Confederate armies during the American Civil War, as well as by western European armies. The traveling forge was frequently also referred to in The Official Records simply as a forge, and sometimes referred to by Civil War buffs as a battery forge.