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Old September 4, 2002, 03:04 PM   #18
4V50 Gary
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I've heard about urinating down a barrel, but have yet to read an actual account from either the Napoleonic or Civil War. Hence I did not mention it. I don't doubt that it happened and in the heat of battle who wouldn't? It may well be that the soldiers may have been too "polite" to have mentioned it. BTW, only the .69 caliber Bakers were issued with a small mallet and the later .62 caliber Bakers did not come with one. The ramrod on the Baker is swelled and purposely so. It is wider so the rifleman doesn't impale his hand when he taps on the top of the ramrod to pound the ball in.

Anybody got a reprint of Johnathan Leach's "Rough Sketches from the Life of an Old Soldier?" Been wanting to read it for years now.
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