Breech Loading Rifle not approved by Lee

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Article by Cornelius R Hanlieter. FCCVA​

 

[UCVRelics]

Very intersting story. he said they shot a 24oz ball so it was a vey small breach loading cannon?

 

[WJC]

Looks like Lee's concern was a valid one: logistics. No matter how good a weapon it might have been, it was unique. if it could not be successfully supported and maintained in the field, it was useless.

 

[UCVRelics]

Looks like Lee's concern was a valid one: logistics. No matter how good a weapon it might have been, it was unique. if it could not be successfully supported and maintained in the field, it was useless.

Got to give them E for effort since it looks like they were a little late in getting guns at the start of the Unpleasantness . The spirit was there.

 

[UCVRelics]

One thing people don't relies is that during the peak of the CW there was over 400 different calibers of small arms ammo and over 100 artillery rounds. It was an Ordnance officers nightmare.

 

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This collection of over 40 items includes one of the rarest and smallest projectiles, a 2.25″ shell for breech loading Confederate mountain rifle. These particular projectile with two lead embedded bands are by unknown patent, however recently discovered information by Jack W. Melton, Jr. and Colonel John Biemick for upcoming publication have identified the design of this shell by William Rushton of Atlanta, GA who also designed the breech loading cannon which was to fire these; only these projectiles have been noted and cannon is unlocated. Very few of these shells were recovered from the site of the Georgia State Armory which was destroyed by General Sherman and munitions dumped in the Oconee River at Milledgeville, GA.
https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/3295-369/

 

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Article by Cornelius R Hanlieter. FCCVA​

I question whether it was Gen Robert E Lee who inspected the battery. The battery was stationed with Wrights Legion then the 38th Georgia and did not leave Georgia until later (1864). The recollection states that in 1862 Lee personally inspected the battery, Lee was then in command of the ANV (June 1861) and not in Georgia. I attribute it to a little embellishing in his later years...…...