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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (874238)	7/21/2015 5:17:17 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

Thanks, very interesting: ‘At Vicksburg, Grant found that the 30,000 surrendered Confederates had been armed with new, excellent British Enfield Rifles. His own men were armed with European cast-offs or refashioned old US models, both far inferior to the British weapon. Grant had his regiments trade in their old weapons for the Enfields. At the Siege of Petersburg, Grant forwarded to Secretary of War Stanton a captured artillery ammunition box stamped “Royal Arsenal Woolwich”. ‘In the last year of the war, Lee’s army was surviving on British bacon* shipped in through Wilmington.*