From The Greensborough Patriot

Jan. 9, 1862 – Pg. 1

A New Gun.

            Capt. Asa George of this place has invented a cannon which is both novel and ingenious.  We witnessed a trial made recently, and for rapid firing and accuracy it beats anything we have heard of.  It works on the revolving principle, the loaded chambers being made to revolve round to the barrel by working a lever sideways.  The man who is to fire the gun takes his seat near the breach and can load and fire it about sixteen times in a minute.  With three men to work the piece, it could be fired probably seventy-five times per minute.  We know very little about such things, but it is the opinion of military men that the invention might be turned to good account during the present war.  Capt. George has a letter from Gen. Hill, who examined the gun before it was brought to its present perfection, saying that he is “satisfied of its great efficiency and value.”  Capt. George is a mechanic of small means, and not able to continue experiments and have the gun more thoroughly tested and thus brought prominently before the public; but if it was in the hands of some person or a company who had the money to spare, the invention might be made profitable and useful.—Charlotte Democrat.