T ike a talented actor without a publicist to help make him more famous than his co-star, the Spencer rifle was one of the most prolific cartridge-firing repeaters of the Civil War and the American West but has constantly been overshadowed by the Henry rifle. To put this in perspective, ...
a .52 caliber, lever-action repeating rifle and carbine patented in the U.S. in 1860 and used by the Union army and navy in the Civil War. spencer3 [ spen-ser ] Phonetic (Standard) IPA noun Nautical. a large gaff sail used abaft a square-rigged foremast or abaft the mainmast of ...
Extended 18c., to fashionable articles of dress associated with prominent members of the family. As a type of repeating rifle used in the American Civil War, 1863, named for U.S. gunsmith ChristopherSpencer, who, with Luke Wheelock, manufactured them in Boston. ...
On March 6, 1860, Spencer obtained a patent for a breech-loading rifle that could fire more than 20 rounds a minute. With the breakout of the American Civil War in April 1861, the U.S. Navy tested Spencer's rifle, and t...