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Michael Thayne · 09-29-2021, 11:54 AM

This paper makes me think the cartridge-conversion process was not totally complete until 1869, though significant numbers of cartridge-converted rifles would have been issued starting in 1867. The paper does not offer much insight into how it was decided which units would get the converted rifles first. I suspect frontier troops living in relatively close proximity to Native Americans would have been highish priority, but I don't know. The paper indicates natives were caught off-guard by the use of breechloaders in a battle the following year in 1867, so maybe the use of those weapons was unusual then.

Here's another useful link about the weapons of a 1866 battle.

09-29-2021, 11:54 AM	#8
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Re: Dropping a small Wild West town into a Dungeon Fantasy setting This paper makes me think the cartridge-conversion process was not totally complete until 1869, though significant numbers of cartridge-converted rifles would have been issued starting in 1867. The paper does not offer much insight into how it was decided which units would get the converted rifles first. I suspect frontier troops living in relatively close proximity to Native Americans would have been highish priority, but I don't know. The paper indicates natives were caught off-guard by the use of breechloaders in a battle the following year in 1867, so maybe the use of those weapons was unusual then. Here's another useful link about the weapons of a 1866 battle.