What is commonly called the Minie Rifle is, in fact, only a Minie Rifle Ball, for the barrels of the guns are nearly the same as the ordinary grooved rifles.
The Revolver affords a formidable means for attack or defence at short distances, whilst the Minie Rifle extends the destructive range of fire-arms far beyond the distance to which the ordinary musket ball could reach.
The Minie ball serves the purpose excellently for a short time, but after firing several rounds the iron button is forced through the lead, leaving a portion of it behind, which clogs up the barrel, and renders it unfit for use.
Of the commissioned officers Captain Barker, commanding regiment, and First Lieutenant Burrage were wounded by minie balls, the former in the arm, the latter in the shoulder.
Captain Bailey moved at once to the spot, and as he was bending over the dying corporal, a minie ball entered the captain's forehead, and he fell forward upon the corporal's body.
His head was pierced by a minie ball, and he who but a few moments before had left us in the full strength and courage of early manhood was brought back a corpse.
The enemy, halting, made a stand a few yards below the entrance to their residence, firing up the street almost a hailstorm of Minie balls from their Spencer rifles.
I knew a Union soldier who found at Camp Jackson, among the prisoners, his own brother, wounded by two Minie rifle balls.
Sweeney, who had lost one arm in the Mexican War, received a Minie bullet in his remaining arm, and another shot in his foot, while his horse fell riddled with seven balls.
The minie did not find him until he was halfway across the field.
A minie killed him, but his men poured over the parapet.
A minie ball came from the wood and pierced his thigh.
Gordon heard the thud of the minie as it struck “Old Dick.
A number of Confederates were killed or wounded, and I heard the ominous thud of a minie ball as it struck General Ewell at my side.
The rifle itself is not a greater advance upon old Brown Bess than is the Minie bullet upon the old one-ounce ball.
That is the day of a soldier not on guard or not belonging to a company which is out for Minie practice.
The Ohio boy is laid up now with a Minie in his arm that he caught the next day, and he is wondering if the Alabama lad with the father sent him that ball as a keepsake and a reminder!
The Major was shot in the breast by a Minieball and instantly killed.
Scarcely had he adjusted it when a Minie ball knocked him out of line; jumping up quickly he pulled out his hat, waved it over his head shouting, 'I'm all right!
Lookout Mountain, fell pierced in the side, a mortal wound, by a minie ball.
Ellen Goodridge, although not an enlisted soldier, was in every great battle fought in Virginia, receiving a painful wound in the arm from a minie ball.
It should look like this after being sharpened like a minie bullet: (Fig.
The work of picking up minie balls began as soon as we reached the battle-field, and, consequently, we carried several pounds some distance unnecessarily.
Delicately nurtured women dug up the spent minie balls from the frozen clods and exchanged them for bread.
Picking up minie balls around Atlanta--Exchanging them for bread.
At this discharge, the Corporal fell to the ground, a minie ball having passed directly through him, having entered his right breast.
I only had one Minie bullet through the left breast, too high to do much harm, two bullets in the left leg and right foot, my left arm broken by a fragment of shell and my right eye punched out by another.
Says that she is never happy except she has a few broken limbs, and smashed heads, and gunshot wounds through the body, and holes made by Minie bullets, under her especial care.
So the Minie rifle did in one minute what six guns and rocket-tubes had been attempting for the last quarter of an hour.
Here I had an opportunity of showing what the Minie rifle could perform.
It was an absolute necessity to make another-shaped bullet, as the original Minie was useless without the socket of condensed paper, which I could not procure in the colony.
The Minie rifle taught them this day a lesson which they ever after identified with my men, and they never forgot its instructive teaching.
He took an almost passionate interest in me, my task, and the Minie rifle.
I have seen a party of my own men firing at one another, at long distances, from behind rocks, merely to find out the range of their Minie rifles.
In the year 1847 I was attached to the French staff in Algeria, and during several expeditions, both against Arabs and Kabyles, I became deeply impressed with the great superiority of the Minie rifle over the old smooth-bore.
And as De Wet put the first day's plan of these movements into progress, the New Cavalry Brigade, by order, remained halted, covering the entrance to the pass at Minie Kloof.
And the brigadier had every cause for anxiety, for the under-features of Minie Kloof could swallow a thousand men, and still leave a mocking enemy in possession of the salients.
Strydenburg be abandoned, and the troops which would have been used for the reconnaissance be sent to hold Minie Kloof.
Almost at the same moment the helio from the summit ofMinie Kloof called us up.
Hertzog joined him with the information that three columns had moved out of Britstown, by way of Minie Kloof.
The enemy retired over Minie Kloof and halted at a farm on the far side of the pass.
Such a valley we found within the outer barrier of Minie Kloof.
The giant outcrop of volcanic rock which is known as Minie Kloof rises, with that directness peculiar to the vast South African table-land, sheer from a prairie as level as a billiard-table.
As it is essential that the pass over Minie Kloof should be kept clear pending the arrival of the aforementioned details, the G.
The farms which the brigadier had indicated were situated at the foot of a spur of rocky excrescence which ploughed into the veldt from the north of Minie Kloof.
Gaily it caught the rising efforts of the sun, and threw to brigadier and staff the welcome news that the summit of Minie Kloof was clear.
One troop had been missing ever since the first day out from Richmond Road, the other had lost itself that morning in Minie Kloof.
Therefore the officer commanding the New Cavalry Brigade, having covered the whole force overMinie Kloof, will halt and allow the brave general to pass through his brigade, and then follow him along a Karoo road into Prieska.
Its body and branches were chipped into splinters by minie balls.
The trunk of that oak tree now on exhibition in Washington tells better than words the heroic endurance of the Confederate soldier, and gives a faint idea of the storm of minie balls hurled at us.
I examined this forenoon an oak tree fully eighteen inches in diameter felled by being cut off by minie bullets at the apex of the "Bloody Angle" occupied by the enemy.
General Hood, one of the Confederate division commanders, was severely wounded in this movement with a minie ball, and was carried from the field.
He was struck in the leg by a minie ball, and if surgical attention had been given him at once his life would have been saved.
The minie balls continually showered the green pine needles and pitchy twigs upon us.
Peirson was already badly wounded in the bowels by a minie ball.
The statement in the certificate of discharge from his second enlistment as to the wound he received by a minie ball at Fredericksburg was of course derived from his own statement, as it was related to a prior term of service.
I was one who with others thus volunteered, and amid the thunder of artillery firing and the click of minie bullets over our heads we sang that song with Mrs. Hoge, as she held the flag in her arms.
Every minute, almost, a tick-a-ka-tick of minie bullets was registered by the twigs and leaves above and around us.
These men were each armed with the minie rifle which was first introduced into the army, and which was quite an effective weapon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
