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"...I found cartridges made of stout writing paper and the finest of powder; they were stronger in material and force than ours. A rebel told me afterward they were of English make. I thought they made my gun kick harder."
Sometimes reminiscences of old veterans can provide information about weapons, ammunition, or accouterments - their own or that of opposing forces. How accurate is this one from a member of the 67th Pennsylvania (Sixth Corps) writing about events at the Battle of Cedar Creek?
After our run following the Johnnies that we now could not see or hear, we stopped at a ditch at foot of the fields, wherein lay a number of dead and dying rebel soldiers. I had a picked-up bayonetless gun and only a few caps and cartridges, borrowed from my comrades when we had formed line in the early morning. On opening a dead rebel's cartridge box I found cartridges made of stout writing paper and the finest of powder; they were stronger in material and force than ours. A rebel told me afterward they were of English make. I thought they made my gun kick harder. ~ A. P. Watson, Co. I, 67th PA, Indiana, PA. [The National Tribune., February 03, 1898, page 2.]
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