priming-powder

Updated: April 30, 2025

The belt also secured the "primer with priming-powder," the "bullet-bag," the "priming-wire," and the "match-cord." The soldier being thus a slave to his weapon, we are not surprised to note that his manual of arms was the following, from Elton's "Postures of the Musket:" Our fathers might have gone on in this lumbering way for many years if they had seen nothing worth imitating in the red men.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885