Richard Jordan Gatling
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Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.
Gatling sometime between 1870 and 1880
Gatling mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery
Copperhead (politics)
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In the 1860s, the Peace Democrats, also known as Copperheads, were a faction of the Democratic Party in the North who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the C
Richard Jordan Gatling
…Type Factory. Although the gun was developed during the Civil War, it saw very little action. This is partly because Gatling was accused of being a copperhead because of his North Carolina roots, but this was never proven. Gatling was never affiliated with the Confederate States government or military, nor…
The Eastern copperhead snake is venomous and has coloration well-adapted for camouflage
Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by Charles Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City
Clement Vallandigham, leader of the Copperheads, coined the slogan: "To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was."
"The Copperhead Party—in Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace!", cartoon by Thomas Nast, in the Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1863