. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . d, a vital imperfec-fect, of modern weapons are their creation! tion in machine guns. Owing to the numberT e Catling gun, the Gardner, the Lowell, of barrels, the gun and carriage were heavythe Hotchkiss, the dynamite guns, and the and cumbersome, so as to absorb the recoilbest of magazine rifles are their inventions, of so great a discharge. Moreover, the rateHistory furnishes many proofs that it is to the of fire was not rapid, as much time was neces-improvements of arms that nations have owed sarily taken up in loading,their success in wa
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . d, a vital imperfec-fect, of modern weapons are their creation! tion in machine guns. Owing to the numberT e Catling gun, the Gardner, the Lowell, of barrels, the gun and carriage were heavythe Hotchkiss, the dynamite guns, and the and cumbersome, so as to absorb the recoilbest of magazine rifles are their inventions, of so great a discharge. Moreover, the rateHistory furnishes many proofs that it is to the of fire was not rapid, as much time was neces-improvements of arms that nations have owed sarily taken up in loading,their success in war; and in these utilitarian We have called the Gatling the progenitordays thatnation which first puts into intelligent of machine guns, because it was the first. Itpractice on the battle-field the proper use of was in\ented by Dr. Robert Gatling. then ofmachine guns must inevitably come oftthe vie- Indiana, in i86r ; but though brought to thetor. Some of us remember the halo of mystery attention of the American Government, it wasVol. XXXVI.— GATLING POLICE GIN. 8S6 AMEJilCAX MACHIXE CAXXOA^ AXD DYXAAIITE GUXS. not given a trial till some years after the war pass through another disk. The shaft projects of the Rebellion, when, in an improved con- beyond the muzzles and extends backward for dition. It was finally adopted. Since then all some distance behind the breeches. The barrels the governments of the world have used more and locks are revolved together around the or less of them. Its first actual service of impor- shaft by turning a crank on the side of the tance was in the war of 1S70-71 between Ger-many and France. To be sure, it was not tillnearly the close of the war, and when thefailure of the mitrailleuse was acknowledged,that it was used. If it had been used in the be- casmg surrounding the breech. Besides thismotion, the locks have a forward and back-ward motion of their own, the first of whichplaces the cartridges in the barrels and closesthe breech at the t
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