Re: Getting nailed from Way Far Away (tm)

At 11:36 AM -0500 5/30/01, Kevin Walker wrote:

>
>Maybe shell is more appropriate although that usually relates to an
>artillery piece shot with an explosive charge IIRC.  With the
introduction
>of the repeating rifle and carbine during the American Civil War and
that
>some officers carried personal side-arms that were a type of revolver
there
>I believe they had a combined bullet and powder cartridge.

Most of the revolvers of the Civil War period were cap and ball type. 
6 Cylinders, all preloaded with a percussion cap, powder charge, 
wadding, bullet, wadding and some grease to keep it all dry.

Brass cartridges were in their infancy. The lever action rifles were 
the first to really show them off. They weren't cheap or common yet.

--
- Ryan Montieth Gill		DoD# 0780 (Smug #1) / AMA / SOHC -
- ryan.gill@SPAMturner.com  I speak not for CNN, nor they for me -
- rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com	     www.mindspring.com/~rmgill/ -