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The Gorgas machine gun (or sometimes just a Gorgas gun) was a manually cranked prototype machine gun the creation of Confederate States General Josiah Gorgas.It had a single 1.25 inches caliber smooth-bore barrel. The barrel was fed from a revolver-like ring but with an axis of rotation perpendicular to the bore rather than the usual revolver configuration with parallel axes. The cylinder housed 18 copper-lined chambers that were muzzle loaded from the outer side of the ring.