An irony was that a lot of the Injins had lever action repeating rifles while our boys in blue were stuck with those rolling block single shot rifles.
I had no idea. So much for the quartermasters of the time.
It wouldn’t take a West Point grad to figure out that repeaters vs single shots is a losing proposition.
Glory out ranks sense.
Single shot Springfield trapdoor carbines shooting .45-50 rounds.
***Repeating rifles.***
Burke, in his book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK mentions the Sioux and Cheyenne were getting belligerent as they now had “magazine rifles”.
In the raid on Crazy Horse’s village, March 1876, the Indians escaped. It was so cold that the Tipis would not burn properly, when suddenly they started exploding due to the stored gunpowder and ammo in the village.
The soldiers took the village, but were defeated by the intense cold.