PLAN OF A NEW CORPS. 1^ 



fired as many times in one minute, as he 

 can discharge his common musket ; which 

 very same gun can also shoot with the same 

 precision as the best rifle-gun at any dis- 

 tance. , 



Such a gun I pledge myself to produce ; 

 which gun and bayonet together, shall be 

 EQUAL in LENGTH to every soldier*s musket 

 and bayonet ; shall be loaded and fired 



AS MANY TIMES IN ONE MINUTE AS A 

 SOLDIER'S MUSKET; shall weigh lighter* 

 than a musket; shall fire, when loaded 

 with cartridges, with sufficient precision at 

 100 yards to hit the figure of a man, and 

 shall fire at three hundred yards with the 

 same precision that any rifle will ; and with 

 precision at greater distances. 



* This gun will be nearly the same weight as a sol- 

 dier's musket. The rifle-guns made for our rifle corps 

 are all too light in the barrel. If a sufficient charge 

 of powder were put in, so as to throw a ball with any 

 certainty five hundred yards into a body of men, they 

 would knock the man down who fires them ; and a 

 rifleman who cannot throw a ball into a column, at 

 that distance, is badly armed to harass an enemy on 

 their line of march. 



