Tks. This has been the point I have trying to make. I too am a Spencer fan....for the Cav! But it came late and brass was needed and the dam infranty Spencer (a relative of mine has one, original ) was very heavy and it took a clip and that meant taking care of a rather fragile clip in the field for its day....kinda a delicate clip as ya know. And so and so forth. I can and have put 10 rounds of paper rounds thru a Sharps in under 1 minute. For its day it was perfectly feasible to have all Union infranatry armed with the breech loading Sharps at least by 1863....many sooner. It was NOT new technolgy. Been around for a decade. Hmmmm, think Berdan! That is what he wanted and got. Yup. I understand this thread advocating repeaters....may have been a tad too early for that in the 1860's for infranty with all the training and ammo, and all the other etc's.....but to my mind the infrantry Sharps would have fit into the niche of the war perfectly....and been an early war winner for the North unless you Southerners can figure a counter....which is perfectly fair on here. Yes....bring it.
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