“Primitive, but damned capable these things. I think it was the Sikhs in the eighteenth century that came up with the basic design of the Sher Panja, but they really came into their own in our country during the Civil War. There wasn’t hardly a self-respecting soldier who didn’t have a set of these made out of brass or cast iron or even if they had to carve them out of wood or cast them out of lead bullets molded in dirt.”
