historical fact

After the Battle of Gettysburg, the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington to be inspected and reissued. Some 37,574 rifles were recovered. They found 24,000were still loaded; 6,000 had one round in the barrel; 12,000 had two rounds in the barrel; 6,000 had three to ten rounds in the barrel. One rifle had been stuffed to the top with twenty-three rounds in the barrel.