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whether this invention, on the average, ever got beyond the first camp in active service.
I still have in my possession the remnants of a waterfilterer in which I invested after enlistment.
There was a metallic mouth-piece at one end of a small gutta-percha tube, which latter was about fifteen inches long.
At the other end of the tube was a suction-chamber, an inch long by a half-inch in diameter, with the end perforated, and containing a piece of bocking as a filter.
Midway of the tubing was an air-chamber.
The tubing long since dried
and crumbled away from the metal.
It is possible that I used this instrument half a dozen times, though I do not recall a single instance, and on breaking camp just before the Gettysburg Campaign, I sent it, with some other effects, northward.
I remember another filterer, somewhat simpler.
It consisted of the same kind of mouth-piece, with rubber tubing attached to a small conical piece of pumice-stone, through which the water was filtered.
Neither of these was ever of any practical value.
I have spoken of the rapid improvements made in arms.
This improvement extended to all classes of fire-arms alike.
Revolvers were no exception, and Colt's revolver, which monopolized the field for some time, was soon crowded in the race by Smith and Wesson, Remington, and others.
Thousands of them were sold monthly, and the newly
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