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The Civil War historian Robert V. Bruce speculated that had such rifles been widely distributed to the Union Army by 1862, the Civil War would have been shortened by years, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
This passage is refering to the Spencer Rifle and how the Army’s chief of ordnance James Wolfe Ripley worked to sabotage the widespread proliferation of repeaters in the Union army. Does that statement ring true?
Could more Spencer's and Henry's issued really have had that impact?