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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 ...
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 ...
Hall's rifle works design worked so well as that it had to undergo only minimal changes through the end of the Model 1819’s run in 1853. [4] By 1842, 23,500 rifles and 13,682 Hall-North carbines had been produced, most at Harper's Ferry, earning Hall nearly $40,000 in royalty and patent-licensing fees.
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)
The 38th New York Infantry was organized at New York city by Colonel J. H. Hobart Ward who was appointed by the State of New York May 25, 1861. It mustered in the United States service at East New York for two years, June 3 and 8 (Company I), 1861.