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What would happen? Here to tell the story of Gatling. is Ashley Lubinsky. Take it away, Ashley. Yeah.
There aren't sufficient words to describe the horrible tragedies that befell Americans during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. With an estimated over 600,000 dead in just four short years. At the beginning of the war, a colonel and a dentist wondered if there could be a weapon so terrible that it would deter warfare from continuing. That dentist was Richard Jordan Gatling, and he decided to take on that task with his invention that bore his name, the Gatling gun. Born in eighteen eighteen in North Carolina, Gadling showed a lot of promise for inventing.
Pretty early on, he created improvements on steamboats and also different agricultural equipment. Although, after a bout of smallpox, Galling decided to shift to a career in medicine, and he earned his MD in 1850 from the Ohio Medical College. but he actually never practiced as a doctor. In 1861, Galling took out a patent for a repeating rifle battery.
Now people often incorrectly cite the Gatling gun as a machine gun, although that definition is misleading. A machine gun itself fires continuously with one trigger press, but Gatling's gun operated with a hand crank at the back of the gun.
So the gun was seated onto a carriage. It was a very, very large piece of artillery. And it had multiple barrels that were affixed around a central access, similar to that of a cylinder on a revolver. And the rate of fire was about 200 rounds per minute on the initial Gatling guns. Although, you could kinda say that the rate of fire was however fast you could turn the crank.
but later models would fire up to four hundred rounds per minute. which is pretty impressive when you think that the standard military firearm at the time of the American Civil War is a single shot rifle musket that if you were good you could fire maybe three shots a minute.
So the difference is is pretty impressive. Gadling, though, is a really interesting character because he's a bit of a hypocrite. He was living in Indiana at the time the war broke out. He was a Freemason and he had no problem selling his Gatling gun to the union. But simultaneously, he was an active member in the Order of the American Knights, which was a secret group of Confederate sympathizers who often operated as silent saboteurs in the North.
Ultimately, the Gatling gun was a bit ahead of its time, as the style of warfare at the beginning of the war didn't really call for a gun with that kind of size and that kind of firepower, because most of the fighting was happening shoulder to shoulder, meaning that soldiers would stand in lines together row after row after row, and they were equipped with rifle muskets. Interestingly, though, during the Civil War, two Gatling guns were stationed at the New York Times in Manhattan in order to quell riots that consisted of draft dodgers in what a lot of people call one of the bloodiest outbreaks of civil disorder in American history. But on the battlefield, the Gatling gun really doesn't appear until around 1864 at the sieges of Petersburg in Virginia. And that military purpose started to appear for the Gatling gun because warfare changed by the end of the Civil War.
So initially, soldiers are essentially a human wall. But by the end of the war, you start seeing the earliest styles of trench warfare begin. And so at Petersburg, trenches were dug, and the Gatling guns were set up around the perimeter. In order to be utilized in kind of your earliest form of trench warfare, which will be modernized and used mostly during World War I. And the gallon gun also appeared in some forms by use in the Navy.
The US Army though did adopt the Gatling gun in 1866, but The Gatling gun is probably more prolific in the movies than it actually was in any practical application in American military history. It saw a lot more widespread adoption overseas in places like Africa and Asia. Even George Armstrong Custer wasn't a fan during the Plains Indian Wars because the Gatling gun was so cumbersome with its carriage that it really wasn't useful on mountainous terrain out west. Yeah. And the galling gun quickly kind of became a technology that was too far advanced when it was first developed, but was quickly outpaced by new inventions such as the automatic machine gun.
Gallings were present at the Battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898, but so were Colt Model 1895 machine guns, which proved far more effective, especially when you consider the fact that they were literally fighting up a hill, and the Galling gun is. A very, very large gun. Gatling would try to maintain some level of relevance and would improve upon the gun during his lifetime, but it wouldn't truly show its potential until a century later, believe it or not, when designers affixed belts to the surviving Gatling guns and turned them into the earliest prototypes for today's minigun, capable of firing over 6,000 rounds a minute. But back to Gatling himself. After his limited success with the gun, he went back to inventions outside the gun world, including improvements on toilets.
bicycles, cleaning wool, pneumatics, and many other fields. His work was recognized. He was elected the first president of the American Association of Inventors and Manufacturers in 1891. But unfortunately, Gadling died after losing his fortunes through bad investments in 1903. A sad ending for a man who, according to legend, had the naive and futile dream to make a gun to end all wars, rather than serve as a catalyst for designs that inspired more deadly ones still used in war to day.
And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Ashley Lubinsky. She's the co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms, former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum, and she's the co-founder of the University of Wyoming College of Law's Firearms Research Center. And what a story she told about a gun that was much more useful for movie lore and mythology than in actual war, good for trench warfare for a spot, too big to move along with troops, and in the end some of the technology adopted by other firearms to be used down the road in warfare. the story of Richard Catling and his gun.
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