Imagine if Gatling had invented his multi-barreled, rotary rifle a few years earlier.
Too bad his sales reps couldn't demonstrate its usefullness and superiority sooner.
Say, used by the National Guard against striking miners in Pittsburgh or something.
Enough of them in Unionist hands and Ghettysburg would have been over in a few hours instead of three days.
And so would the ACW.
Dixie's young and upright wheat mowed down in hours.
A grand metapher for the Union victory.
And industrialism, of course.
Imagine if Gatling had invented his multi-barreled, rotary rifle a few years earlier. Too bad his sales reps couldn't demonstrate its usefullness and superiority sooner. Say, used by the National Guard against striking miners in Pittsburgh or something. Enough of them in Unionist hands and Ghettysburg would have been over in a few hours instead of three days. And so would the ACW.
Dixie's young and upright wheat mowed down in hours.
A grand metapher for the Union victory. And industrialism, of course.