![]() This rare Spencer Model 1860 carbine is identified as a War Department pattern gun and the top of the breech end of the barrel is bearing a flaming bomb stamp above "W.D" (War Department) surrounded by an oval and "1864" in three lines. After two years of frustrations with the War Department and pitching his repeating rifle directly to Northern governors, Christopher Spencer was invited to Washington in the spring of 1862 to demonstrate his invention to President Lincoln himself. ![]() ![]() Ordnance Department was slow to order or deploy these advanced firearms in large numbers. The Spencer is credited with being the world’s first military-issued repeating metallic cartridge rifle, but the U.S. The Spencer rifle (top) and the Spencer carbine (bottom.) With more than 12,000 Spencer lever action rifles and upwards of 90,000 Spencer carbines purchased by the Union during the Civil War, Christopher Spencer’s seven-shot design was by far the most common repeater on the battlefield. Even fewer can compare more than one, let alone study them next to some of the best surviving examples. Not a lot of people have an opportunity to see an original Henry rifle in person.
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