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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba03newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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us cover the decks of an enemys vessel,while the larger sizes are especially valuableagainst torpedo boats. In common with othermachine guns, it requires but few men andhorses to manipulate it or to transport it.For the clearing of mobs in streets, forthe protection of buildings containing treas-ure, for use in revolts in penitentiaries, itis a terrible weapon of defense and destruc-tion. Its adaptations for the purposes offlank defense; protecting roads, defiles,and bridges; covering crossings of streams;increasing infantry fire at critical moments; repulsing cavalry; covering the retreat ofa cohunn; and its intensity and continuity offire — all render it of surpassing imj)ortance. Another machine gun, now world-famous,and of a different type from the Gatling, thoughthe invention of an American, is the Gardnergun. If the Gatling can fire a greater num-ber of shots per minute and at greater rangesthan any other gun, on the other hand it isclaimed for the Gardner that for simplicity,
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TVVO-BAKKELED GARDNER GIN ON TRIPOD. durability, lightness, ease of operation, andaccuracy it has no eciual. It is made in all cali-bers from .45 inch up to i inch. It consists oftwo simple breech-loading ritle-barrels placedparallel to each other 1.4 inches apart, both in-closed in a case. These two barrels are loadedand fired and relieved of shells by a mech-anism at the breech which is operated, as inthe Gatling, by a hand-crank. One man in-serts the heads of the cartridges projecting froma feed-case into the feed-guide ; another manturns the crank by which the gun is fired, andas the cartridges disappear down the feed-guide their ))laces are supplied from anothercase. The operations of inserting the cartridge, 888 AMERICAX MACHIXE CAXXOX AXD DYXAMITE GUXS. pieciated in storming stockades,some of which are bullet-proof,and some are not. In the lattercase the guns, having a range oftwo thousand yards, would keepup a stream of bullets out of theenemys reach. ... In like man-ner they

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