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you had to load the minie ball and the cap,
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back here, and then with your ramrod--
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a veteran soldier could do that without pressure
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about three times a minute.
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Of course under the pressure of battle
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and being shot at and the cacophony of sound
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and the terror and fear a soldier went though,
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sometimes they couldn't perform that.
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And all over battlefields in this war
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they would find dead soldiers sometimes with a rifle
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they had loaded three and four times,
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and never fired.