Most of the civilians were armed with 7-shot Spencer repeating rifles.

Each cavalryman was armed with the formidable 7-shot Spencer repeating rifle.

Armed with Spencer repeating rifles the soldiers were able to hold their own and a standoff resulted.

They could put down a volley of withering fire from their breech-loading Spencer repeating rifles.

Their more lethal armament were the seven-shot Spencer repeating rifles carried by all the men.

Hampton had superior numbers, but Gregg's troopers had the Spencer repeating rifle.

They used the superior firepower of their Spencer repeating rifles effectively, and initially thwarted Confederate efforts in the region.

The depleted regiment, armed with 7-shot Spencer repeating rifles, held off the Confederates until they could be reinforced by the rest of the brigade.

His men also carried Spencer repeating rifles, which were capable of a rate of firepower far greater than their Confederate adversaries.

The first magazine fed firearm to achieve widespread success was the Spencer repeating rifle, which saw service in the American Civil War.

One of the early established cartridge arms was the Spencer repeating rifle, which Union forces used in the American Civil War.

These jobs were performed by civilian contractors, usually armed with Spencer repeating rifles and accompanied and guarded by squads of soldiers.

On Carpenter's command, several massive volleys of aimed Spencer repeating rifles hit the front waves of the mounted Indians.

The Spencer repeating rifle was a manually operated lever-action, repeating rifle fed from a tube magazine with cartridges.

Christopher Spencer designed the Spencer repeating rifle which played an important role for Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg.

In the second half of the conflict, in the northeast theater, Tosa Province troops are known to have used American-made Spencer repeating rifles.

The Spencer repeating rifle was a breech-loading manually operated lever action rifle that was adopted by the United States.

Forsyth hand-picked 48 men at Forts Harker and Hays and armed them with Spencer repeating rifles.

The first significant lever-action design was the Spencer repeating rifle, a magazine-fed lever-operated breech-loading rifle designed by Christopher Spencer in 1860.

Spencer repeating rifle, a U.S. Army weapon popular from the American Civil War through the Plains Indian Wars.

The Fenians were so experienced in handling their single-shot muzzle-loading weapons that it was wrongly reported that they were all armed with seven-shot Spencer repeating rifles.

Copeland was one of the first officers to appreciate the significance of the Spencer repeating rifle and supplied the 5th and 6th Michigan Cavalry regiments with the rifles.

As Bragg marched north on September 18, his cavalry and infantry fought with Union cavalry and mounted infantry, which were armed with Spencer repeating rifles.

The superior Union numbers and firepower-the Michiganders were armed with Spencer repeating rifles and Torbert had deployed horse artillery, a weapon that Butler did not have available-carried the day.

Hooker also began outfitting them with Sharps and Smith breechloading rifles, and, in a couple cases, with Spencer repeating rifles, giving them an advantage in firepower over the Confederates.