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In 1855, the Mississippi rifle was changed to .58 caliber, so that it could use the .58 caliber Minie Ball that had recently become standard. Many older Mississippi rifles were re-bored to .58 caliber. The rifle was also modified to accept a sword type bayonet. The first Mississippi rifles had a v-notch sight. This was later replaced with leaf ...
M1841 Mississippi rifle: A predecessor of the Springfield rifle, the Mississippi rifle was a single-shot, muzzleloading rifle produced at the Harpers Ferry Armory until 1855, although a number of private contractors continued to produce examples through 1862. Both sides equipped their soldiers with Mississippi rifles early in the war due to ...
Harpers Ferry Model 1803 (USA – rifle – 1803) Harpers Ferry Model 1805 (USA – flintlock pistol – 1805) Harpers Ferry Model 1816 (USA – rifle – 1816) Harpers Ferry Model 1819 "Hall Rifle" (USA – rifle – c.1820) Harpers Ferry Model 1841 "Mississippi Rifle" (USA – rifle – 1841) Harpers Ferry Model 1855 (USA – rifle – 1857 ...
Specialty, rampart rifles Perry by Keen, Walker Danville, Virginia.54 caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 280 T. W. Radcliffe Columbia, South Carolina: Rifles Both maker and importer Richmond Armory (VA Manufactory of Arms) Richmond, Virginia: 1861 (1798) Variants of the Richmond rifle: 31,000 rifles 5,400 carbines 1,350 short rifles ...
The Enfield rifle was used by both the North and the South in the American Civil War and was the second most widely used infantry weapon in the war. Fayetteville rifle: Hall rifle: A single-shot breech-loader invented in 1811. A few were used by the Confederacy. Harper Ferry M1803 rifle: Hawken rifle: A frontier rifle used by Confederate ...
In 1849, Burton was promoted to Acting Master Armorer. During the next four years, Burton experimented with improved designs for the Minié bullet at Harpers Ferry. The Minié bullet, introduced in 1848 by Captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the French Army, was a conical slug of lead slightly more than half an inch in diameter and about an inch long, with a hollow base which expanded when the ...
The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (watercolor painted c. 1860) Jefferson Davis, c. 1847 Example of a .54-caliber, muzzle-loading, percussion-fire 1841 Mississippi rifle, as manufactured by Eli Whitney in 1849 (U.S. Military Service Institute via Smithsonian Online)
Harpers Ferry Armory in 1862. The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United States government; the first was the Springfield Armory. It was located in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which since 1863 has been part of West Virginia.