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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
t Americans improve on everything they use. Our own iron-clad ships are a proof of the truth of this remark. We have been shown an improvement upon the Lance, which we think is another proof. The Graves Lance, named after its inventor, Dr. J. R. Graves, of Tennessee, seems to us to be as superior to the ordinary iron-pointed pole called a lance, as the Virginia is to an ordinary wooden boat. It is far superior to anything of the kind we have ever seen. It is not only a terrible, but a tefar superior to anything of the kind we have ever seen. It is not only a terrible, but a terror-inspiring weapon, easily handled, and can be used with a shot-gun or Colt's rifle. A regiment armed with it would, indeed, be "terrible as an army with banners." Dr. Graves comes to the city to offer to the President a legion of Western men armed with his pike, and we are confident he will gladly accept of it. Ten thousand men armed with this weapon would redeem Tennessee. Let them be tried.