DR. GATLING’S WONDER WEAPON.

The article discusses the development of what U.S. inventor Richard Jordan Gatling called his Revolving Battery-Gun, his promotion of the gun during the U.S. Civil War, and the reluctance of the U.S. government and the Union army to utilize the gun during the Civil War. It discusses the advanced technology of the gun, particularly its firing rate, whether the gun was ever used in battle during the war, and speculates on what would have happened had the gun been used by Union forces.