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To increase the firing rate would require a metallic cartridge, and these were not suitable for the millions of muzzle loading rifles manufactured during that war. The majority of troops in the Civil War were equipped with muzzle loading rifles, such as Springfields or Enfields, and under good conditions, a man could fire two or three shots every minute. What the defenders needed was to increase the firing rate, and the critical issue was the time taken to reload. Early Machine Guns Generals in the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) often used the tactic of frontal attacks using large number of men to overwhelm the defenders, on the basis that it took time for each of the defenders to reload, and in that time, the surviving attackers could reach and grapple with the enemy.

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