You've got to read this stuff.

http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialnormanw00conggoog/memorialnormanw00conggoog_djvu.txt

I'd wondered why such superior design could have been given the cold shoulder by most of the Federal military at a time of national emergency, then I discovered that tact was not his strong point. Wasn't any fault of the guns, it was his personality.