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To: fso301
Too bad the Rebs didn't have a rifle so reliable or with such a rate of fire.

Your point is well taken, the Spenser repeater was a significant factor in outcome. Gregg's cavalry, newly carrying Spenser's, stopped JEB Stuart from reinforcing Pickett's charge and changed the outcome of Gettysburg and the war.

121 posted on 07/23/2007 11:42:15 AM PDT by gandalftb (Blessed be the Lord that teaches my hands for the war, and my fingers to fight. (Sniper Jackson))
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To: gandalftb

‘Your point is well taken, the Spenser repeater was a significant factor in outcome. Gregg’s cavalry, newly carrying Spenser’s, stopped JEB Stuart from reinforcing Pickett’s charge and changed the outcome of Gettysburg and the war.’

Nonsense. Stuart’s horses were completely blown by July 3rd, 1863.

And they would have been slaughtered had they ‘reinforced’ Picketts charge across that wide open field, up hill, against fortified positions, backed up with hundreds of artillery pieces.


140 posted on 07/23/2007 12:12:11 PM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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