Assertion: gatling gun | /r/HasProperty | adopted by the war department
Facets:
value: in 1862
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Troubled by the seemingly unexplainable absence of Gatling guns (which were approved and adopted by the War Department in 1862 and used for the remainder of the Civil War) in Hollywood westerns of the ’30s and ’40s about the post-war subjugation of the Indian nations by the US Cavalry, I’ve been searching for authoritative historical information on whether or not they were in fact used.