'Henry Repeating Arguments': Personal Narrative
Henry Repeating Rifles
In my essay I chose to write about Henry Repeating Rifles. I choose to write about this because it was the first repeating rifle designed and patented and it changed the civil war hugely. The repeating rifle was made in 1860 by Benjamin Tyler Henry. It took him three years for him design the repeating rifle. The henry rifle shot a .44-40 or .45 long colt a more powerful round for that time. For a civil war soldier it was his point of pride and would often brag about it in letters back home calling it his “Sixteen” for the amount of rounds it held.
The repeating rifle did not change the outcome of the civil war dramasticly, but it did change the technology of firearms. The henry repeating rifle inspired many firearm
In my essay I chose to write about Henry Repeating Rifles. I choose to write about this because it was the first repeating rifle designed and patented and it changed the civil war hugely. The repeating rifle was made in 1860 by Benjamin Tyler Henry. It took him three years for him design the repeating rifle. The henry rifle shot a .44-40 or .45 long colt a more powerful round for that time. For a civil war soldier it was his point of pride and would often brag about it in letters back home calling it his “Sixteen” for the amount of rounds it held.
The repeating rifle did not change the outcome of the civil war dramasticly, but it did change the technology of firearms. The henry repeating rifle inspired many firearm