August 18, 1863
---John
Beauchamp Jones, of the Confederate War Department, notes the latest news from
the Coastal War in South Carolina:
AUGUST 18TH.—There is heavy firing, day and
night, on Wagner’s battery and Fort Sumter. The enemy use 15-inch guns; but
Sumter is 4000 yards distant, and it may be hoped will not be reduced.
---This
afternoon, Pres. Lincoln meets Christopher M. Spencer, inventor of the Spencer
Repeating Rifle, and walks to Treasury Park, accompanied by his son Robert, Mr.
Spencer, and secretary John Hay, for a test shooting of the new weapon. He recommends it to the Army.
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| Union cavalryman loading a Spencer with a tube magazine through the stock |
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