The Henry Rifle: "Load on a Sunday and Fire All the Week"
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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Captain Allen L. Fahnestock of the 86th Illinois Infantry posed with his Henry Repeating Rifle, which, according to his account, was one of the first two of these firearms to arrive in Union-occupied Nashville. Here's the story about this most desirable—and deadly—weapon.
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