Excellent example Lloyd and exactly the conversation I was trying to get into. Just think how bad it was 150 years ago. Still very difficult to find solid verifiable numbers of cartridges supplied to the various distribution points out in the west. Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place.

Wasn't it Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Union Army who literally throw up his hands in disgust over the difficulties of supplying the Union Army with percussion caps during the War?