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  2. Gatling gun - Wikipedia

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    The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the American Civil War. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union commanders and used in the trenches during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864—April 1865). [31] Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats. [32]

  3. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Gatling gun: Arguably the most successful Civil War machine gun, the Gatling gun could sustain 150 rounds a minute thanks to its rotating barrel design. Although Chief of Ordnance James Wolfe Ripley was against its adoption, that did not stop individual generals like Benjamin Butler from purchasing them for their own use.

  4. Richard Jordan Gatling - Wikipedia

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    Gatling invented the Gatling gun after he noticed that a majority of the soldiers fighting in the Civil War were lost to disease rather than gunshots. In 1877, he wrote, "It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and ...

  5. Rotary cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Gatling gun was a field weapon, first used in warfare during the American Civil War and subsequently by European and Russian armies. The design was steadily improved; by 1876 the Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 1,200 rounds per minute, although 400 rounds per minute was more readily achievable in combat.

  6. Rifles in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    During the American Civil War, an assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield.Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union and Confederate armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first ...

  7. Repeating firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Gatling gun was first used in combat during the American Civil War. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union Army commanders and used in the trenches during the Siege of Petersburg (June 1864 – April 1865). [77] Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats. [78]

  8. Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia

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    Gatling gun; Over 400 personal guns; Deaths: ... Debt relief: Whites and blacks had differing experiences with debt after the American Civil War. For whites, before ...

  9. List of American Indian Wars weapons - Wikipedia

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    Gatling machine gun [2] Artillery ... Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ... By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been ...