From:	David Hinkley <dhinkley@***.ORG>
Subject:	Re: timeline for SR/Earthdawn
Date:	Fri, 21 Apr 1995 01:33:35 -0700

> While I'm on the subject, I have a few more questions:
>
> 1) What exactly was the reason for the formation of the seccesion of the
> Southern States of America? Slavery still can't be the reason.

The quick short answer (the long answer took my Civil War and
Reconstruction professor the better part of a semester) is States Rights.
Slavery in the form of whether a balance of slave and non-slave states
would be maintained with the admission of new states to the republic, was
the most visible manifstation of this question.


> 2) Can someone come up with rules for the type of weaponry that the
> cavalry under Custer used. Did they have the Gattling gun, for example?
> I'm not to keen on my military weaponry history. What kind of weapons
> did the U.S. Cavalry have at that time?
>
The offical issue individual weapons were the Colt Single Action
Army Pistol (the classic six-shooter) in 45 cal, Springfield Trapdoor
Carbine (single shoot breach-loader) in .45-70 and a saber. Officers
supplied their weapons and some NCOs and troopers also supplmented the
issue weapons. As to the Gatling Gun the Artillery Battery attached to
the 7th Cav had Gatlings but Custer left them behind because they would
slow him down.

David Hinkley
dhinkley@***.org