Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> While Pennington got the distinction between Minie- and miniballs
> correct, he misspelled "ordnance" as "ordinance".
>

Not to mention that, he - probably as the consequence of a mind-fart -
says that the greater the distance that the Minie ball traveled, the
more likely it was that the person struck by the ball would suffer a
mortal wound:

"They were _effective_ to a range of about _250 yards_ and _deadly_ to
about _500 yards_."

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-Wilson
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