| During this same period, the Prussians had been testing guns made by Alfred Krupp, and in 1856 they adopted their first Krupp breechloader. |
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| Lincoln personally tested the Spencer and Henry in the summer of 1861, possibly as early as June, and he was responsible for prompting all breechloader orders placed by the Ordnance Department that year. |
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| In 1867 these rifles were converted to breechloader by way of the trapdoor-style Milbank-Amsler system, which chambered a proprietary. |
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| It was like moving from a muzzleloader to a breechloader, because the rate of fire increased so dramatically. |
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| It was the first military breechloader and first percussion firearm adopted for general issue by any country. |
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| It has a 31-inch, heavy octagon barrel, and although a breechloader, it has an onboard ramrod. |
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| P Ames in Massachusetts and Philadelphian Henry Deringer of pocket-pistol fame, and rifle and carbine variants of the unique Jenks sidehammer breechloader. |
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| The shotgun entered the century as a flintlock, mutated into a percussion lock and finally evolved into the side-by-side breechloader we know today. |
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