In the last post, I mentioned that President Lincoln and two members of his cabinet witnessed the testing of the Rafael repeating cannon at the Washington Navy Yard under the guidance of John A. Dahlgren, noted for development of the Dahlgren cannons.
Evidently, this was taken to mean that the Rafael was a cannon that could be fired very rapidly. Further research would indicate that the Rafael was actually a machine gun. I'll be writing about it in tomorrow's Saw the Elephant Blog since it was intended more for Army use.
When Is a Rafael Not a Rafael? --Old B-R'er
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