This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... old-time slow match which ignited the priming-powder had given way to the grooved wheel with serrated edges, rotating against a flint, and this in turn passed out of use when the flint was fastened into the jaws of the cock and sprung against the steel hammer or cover-plate of the flash-pan. Each man when possible had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... old-time slow match which ignited the priming-powder had given way to the grooved wheel with serrated edges, rotating against a flint, and this in turn passed out of use when the flint was fastened into the jaws of the cock and sprung against the steel hammer or cover-plate of the flash-pan. Each man when possible had at least two flints,1 and also a wooden "driver" or " snapper," which was substituted for the flint at the time of exercise to prevent unnecessary wear of the stone. A good flint would fire sixty rounds before it had to be repaired, but the habit of snapping the lock was so prevalent that few flints did so much 1 Journals of Congress, July 15, 1775. 2 Minutes Bucks County Committee of Safety; in Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. 15, p. 354. 3Journals Provincial Congress of Massachusetts (Lincoln), p. 526. service.8 Flints were not easily obtained and workmen who could shape them were few. When "a vein of prodigious fine black flint stone" was discovered upon Mount Independence (near Ticonderoga) in 1776, the commanding officers of regiments were ordered to inquire if there were among their soldiers any old countrymen who understood the hammering of flints.3 1 A. Lewis's Orderly Book, p. 29. 2 Washington's Orderly Book, May 2I, 1776; in his Writings (Ford), vol. 4, p. 100. General Greene, in his orders May 29, 1776, directed as a penalty for snapping locks two days and nights confinement on bread and water. (Long Island Historical Society Memoirs, vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 14.) 3Lieutenant E. Elmer's Journal; in New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, vol. 3 (1849), p. 41. Musket, powder-horn, bullet-flask, and buck-shot pouch carried in the Revolution (lent to the Bostonian Society by George B. Dexter, Esq.). Dru...
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Fine in Very Good jacket. American History Book is in excellent condition with a publisher's flaw at inside upper back cover at corner: the endpaper was not glued quite correctly; otherwise flawless in light blue cloth covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears and is wrapped in archival clear cover. With sections on 18th Century Revolutionary Army, Patriot Forces, Valley Forge, How Formed, Maintained, Food, Equipment, Relations between officers and privates, Camp Duties, Diversions Hospitals Prison Ships, Diaries, Soldier's Letters. B&W illustrations, 258 pages.
