Were our Weapons Came From

By: Nick Prasch
The Civil War is where most of our modern weapons came from. There was the curved saber, which was favored by the cavalry. There was the amazingly stunning Henry Repeater, introduced to the world by Mr. Henry, which was favored by any group of soldier. The Henry Repeater could pull off seven shots before you had the reload. 2 Before the Henry Repeater was the smooth bore musket. 5 Since the smooth bore musket was one of the first guns made, it had a lot of weaknesses which included taking one to two minutes to reload. 3 Amazingly, only the North had the Henry Repeaters. 6 The Confederates weren’t very advanced. 1 The Civil War was the building platform for weapons of today.