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Truth shoots down Spencer rifle lore.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
The Washington Times
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September 30, 2006
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Byline: Joseph G. Bilby, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
According to popular lore, President Lincoln personally intervened in the Union Army's weapons selection process in
1863, ensuring that the repeating Spencer rifle, a revolutionary small-arms technology rejected by hidebound ordnance officers, was adopted and issued to Federal forces, thus changing the course of the war. The truth of the matter, is somewhat different, as is often the case.
In fact, Spencers were in service before Lincoln laid eyes on one. An 1862 contract to supply the Army ...
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