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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Small-arms. (search)
ustive experiments lasting years, a board composed of officers of the line and ordnance experts, all recognized authorities on the subject, decided that the Krag-Jorgenson rifle, calibre .30 inch, was the best gun, and in all respects superior to any other, and should be placed in the hands of all United States troops. This report, and the regular army at the outbreak of the war with Spain had barely sufficient arms for its own use. The result was that the old weapons used before the Krag-Jorgenson—the Springfield, calibre .45 inch—was placed in the hands of most of the volunteer troops. The result was exactly as line officers predicted, the comparative he Cuban campaign there were but eleven amputations, and every case recovered. In official tests made recently comparing the Mauser, calibre .30, and the Krag-Jorgenson, calibre .30, rifles, it was shown that from either gun twenty shots a minute with a good degree of accuracy could be fired, while without aiming twenty shots co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain, War with (search)
of ammunition required by the troops going to Manila, and leaving a small amount for the troops necessary to guard the Atlantic coast, supporting the batteries, and to protect it against the possibility of any force landing on our shores, there was not ammunition enough left in the United States to last an army of 70,000 men in one hour's serious battle. Although the cartridge factories were making the only kind of ammunition that could be used by the troops with the Springfield and Krag-Jorgenson rifles, it was impossible for them to manufacture a sufficient amount to equip an army of the size mentioned to encounter a foreign army of equal strength in less than sixty days. These facts I reluctantly presented, and it was as reluctantly decided that the army must not move until it was ready. The feeling at that time in the country was one of impatience, amounting almost to impetuosity, and the cry of On to Havana! was similar to that of On to Richmond! in June of 1861. In the