Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 1810-1875 to John Titcomb Sprague
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02464.15 Author/Creator: Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 1810-1875 Place Written: Davenport, Iowa Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 16 June 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 25.1 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Brigadier General Roberts writes to Sprague, Adjutant General for the State of New York. Remarks that he recently passed through Ilion, New York, where he experimented with improved shot for rifle guns. Asks Sprague to "send a commission of artillery officers to that place to witness further trials & to report to you their opinion of my shot." Notes that other artillery officers, including General William F. Barry, Chief of Artillery, report in the favour of the improved shot, and that the Army is too occupied to order an ordnance board to assess the shot. Notes, "The Remingtons will have all things in readiness at Ilion, at any time you may order an artillery commission there, and I am confident the results will be a great public good."
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