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Posted by Tom Brennan (A) on January 02, 2008 at 11:27:31

In Reply to: RE: Finally watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Eli Wallach... posted by jamesgarvin on January 02, 2008 at 10:08:52

"I thought of that, too. But I discounted that because it seems that both sides were too well armed to involve rebels."

Through most of the war the Rebels were armed every bit as well as the Federal troops. Late in the war most Federal cavalry were armed with repeating rifles but most Federal infantry were armed with muzzle loading rifles right until the end. And even as late as mid 1863 some Federal units were armed with smoothbore muskets, indeed after the fall of Vicksburg some Federal units exchanged their old muskets for new English Enfield rifles captured with the city.

The Rebels also had plenty of modern cannon including rifled guns and even some breechloading Whitworth rifled cannon from England. A Rebel Whitworth can be seen on the Gettysburg battlefield at Oak Hill.

In any event the Rebels never lost a fight for lack of weapons or ammunition.