On the Model 1860, the flat top surface of the receiver was stamped: As the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. was completing its contract with the U.S. Army for 7,500 30-inch-barreled Spencer rifles in ...

Engineer Christopher Miner Spencer was one of those 19th century ... But it was his eponymous repeating rifle that really established his place in the hierarchy of American inventors.

Q: If repeating rifles were available at the start ... In response to a query from the Secretary of War about buying Henry and Spencer rifles in late 1861, Ripley pointed out logical and practical ...

His approval led to the purchase of 107,372 Spencer repeating carbines and rifles (of 144,500 made), and the Spencer became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns ...

But it was Christopher Miner Spencer, an engineer that also built the Union Army a seven-shot repeating rifle that helped win the Civil War, who built the first pump. Spencer was granted a patent in ...

Neither the Henry nor the Spencer [repeating rifles] had undergone much testing in the field, and neither company was ready for anything approaching the mass production required to arm a rapidly ...

CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP — Bruce Kraft’s interest in the Civil War sprouted after receiving his great-grandfather’s Spencer repeating rifle when he was 10 years old. The War Between the States ...

They were armed with Spencer repeating rifles and they filled the man with bullets before he had a chance to rise from his chair. Some said the victim, Maj. James Bridgewater, was the leader of a ...