I know its a minor POD, but I'm curious about the knock off effects of the US moving towards a modern army with reapeating arms early on in the mid and late 1880's. I was thinking that maybe, just maybe I know I'm pushing it and its border line ASB, that the US military would become focused on accurate fast fire and put aside the old ways.
So lets say the US military decides to go that rout and focuses not only on accuracy but rate of fire as well, what effects does this have down the road and what effects do the M1885 Remington-Lee and its more advanced modernized varients have on the battle fields of the Spanish-American war and the Boxer Rebellion?