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Grooves were important 

in rifles, and percussion 

made it faster to reload, 

when the man who 

could load faster was 

the one who survived.

Today I lost James.   It is the day 

after I was promoted.   It was 

my fault.   I failed to fire and the 

other man was quicker.   I will 

never forgive myself.   I thought 

I would never lose him.   It was 

the last battle of the Civil War.  

James almost made it through 

the whole war.

Years went by without being used.   I sat 

in a box with other guns without being 

used for a while.   I felt alone without 

James.   I was eager to get another 

partner to fill the emptiness, while not 

wanting one because then I would forget 

about James.

Everyone in the gun business was 

promoted today.   It was the 1880s and 

new weapon mechanisms were invented.  

One of the new ones was the magazine 

loading.   At the time it wasn't very liked.  

But I became that and I liked it better.  

The magazine was all new and I met 

new bullets every time. The bullets were 

stacked on top of one another and the 

spring pushed the bullets up.

This helped tremendously because you could 

get more shots off in one minute than a 

musket.  

I was not used very much up until World 

War 1 until the end.   It took a while for 

people to take me out of boxes and I was 

promoted again since there were upgrades 

available.   I was not used until the last year 

of World War 1.   But I finally became 

automatic in the form of a Browning 

Automatic Rifle.   People were finally able to 

make us guns fully automatic which was a 

major advancement for our line of work.   It 

helped fire rate, but also caused your 

chances of being hit to increase.

I met my new partner in the 

last year of WW1 after my 

latest promotion!   I was 

excited for this day.

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