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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 12:58:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hm, I didn't realize until I looked it up that the Gatling gun was invented in 1861 and patented in 1862. I've mainly heard of it in use by the British against the Zulus.

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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 2:33:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe that Benjamin Butler (USA) was the first general officer to use the gun in combat at the siege of Petersburg. The Confederates also became interested in the machine gun. One of these warriors was Captain D. R. Williams who built a rather clumsy repeating one-pounder that was first used at the Battle of Seven Pines (or Fair Oaks). Several batteries of these guns saw service during the war. A few other primitive rapid-fire guns were used by the Confederates in isolated instances. One of them was the forerunner to the famous Lewis machine gun of the First World War.

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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 6:20:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey

Hm, I didn't realize until I looked it up that the Gatling gun was invented in 1861 and patented in 1862. I've mainly heard of it in use by the British against the Zulus.


That's why we have it as a tech upgrade -- while Gatling guns are ahistorical for the Civil War, they could have been used.

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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 9:25:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		The first machine-gun type weapon ever used in combat was built for the Confederate War Dept in Sept 1861 in which I discuss in my post above. The Williams breech-loading rapid-fire gun was first used at the Battle of Seven Pines and worked so well that the War Dept ordered 42 more of them.





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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 9:28:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another interesting weapon is the .52 caliber Billinghurst-Requa. As many as 50 of the breech-loading Billinghurst-Requa batteries were produced for the Union. Some were used in battles but with limited effect. The gun used a light carriage to mount 25 rifled barrels side by side.




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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/12/2006 10:41:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dh76513

The first machine-gun type weapon ever used in combat was built for the Confederate War Dept in Sept 1861 in which I discuss in my post above. The Williams breech-loading rapid-fire gun was first used at the Battle of Seven Pines and worked so well that the War Dept ordered 42 more of them.






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RE: The Civil War: Transitions to Modern Warfare - 10/13/2006 1:59:01 PM   
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