The Gallager Carbine
It is my understanding that this carbine was a breach loading rifle that did not have an ejector pin. Why would the US Goverment issue some 13000 of these if there were so many complants about this weapon? It was even issued to cavalry units late in the war.
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IN a word... desperation. Cav arms were in short supply. There were not enough carbines, pistols, sabre's or horses. Much of the organization was ad hoc and catch as catch can. The illusion of every Union Cav trroper w/ a carbine, pistol & sabre was just that an illusion. Even as late as 1865 many Union Cav regiments were still not fully equipped to regulation standards.
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