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Possibly 3,000 or so Henrys were actually purchased by the US Government for the US Army during the war; but usually it was wealthy Regimental Colonels that purchased Henrys for their men. And of course many officers purchased Henrys for their own use. This also applied to the Spencer repeating rifles which fed metallic cartridges thru the butt end of the stock.

Those Civil War Henrys and the Henry company of the 1860s SHOULD NOT be confused with the Henrys of today. The Henry of today was founded by an Italian immigrant who purchased the old American gun company of Iver Johnson and simply used the Henry name (patent expired) when he started the company up in 1992.

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