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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dagger" data-source="post: 278047" data-attributes="member: 279">Heres a good page for you, even has pics of the scops and rifes.<a href="http://members.tripod.com/~ProlificPains/wpns.htm" target="_blank">http://members.tripod.com/~ProlificPains/wpns.htm</a>Even has pics of the carbines (cartridge's anyone) used in the later part of the war.Check this quote out, imagine if they had issued the weapons the Union troops!"Repeating rifles had been invented prior to the beginning of hostilities, but the US Army's Ordinance Dept dismissed the new inventions because it was thought that troops would waste ammunition and the operating mechanisms might be a maintenance problem. Instead, the Ordinance Dept put its faith in the single-shot muzzle-loading rifled musket -- with which a good soldier could fire 3 rounds a minute. It was not until late 1863 that many federal soldiers received army issued repeating rifles...and then only the cavalry, not the infantry got the new weapons. Repeaters, such as this Henry rifle, were breech-loading and fired a metallic cartridges. The bullets were loaded into tubular magazines that fed them into the breech, operated by a lever mechanism. A soldier with a repeater could fire 14 rounds to the 3 rounds a minute a soldier with a muzzle-loader was capable of."</blockquote>