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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 sights with 100, 300, and 500 yard ranges. A ladder sight with ranges from 100 to 1100 yards in 100 yard increments was fitted on some later ...
Model 1842 musket with bayonets, M1841 Mississippi Rifle, M1842 dragoon pistol, M1840 Cavalry saber, M1840 light artillery sabers, 10-inch shells, various small arms and ordnance J. C. Peck Atlanta, Georgia: Specialty, rampart rifles Perry by Keen, Walker Danville, Virginia.54 caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 280 T. W. Radcliffe
M1819 Hall Breech-Loading Rifle Socket Bayonet; M1841 Mississippi Rifle Bayonet; M1847 Musketoon Bayonet; M1849 Rifleman's Knife; M1855 Socket Bayonet; M1861 Navy Rifle Bayonet; M1868 Trowel Bayonet; M1873 Trowel Bayonet; M1880 Hunting Knife (a.k.a. Entrenching knife) M1887 Hospital Corps Knife [5] M1898 Bolo Bayonet; M1898 Bowie Bayonet; M1892 ...
[4] [note 4] These rifles had been manufactured by the Harper's Ferry Arsenal and by contract in 1844 in Windsor, Vermont by the Robbins and Lawrence Armory (R&L) [14] which had also made the 1855 modifications of increasing the bore to .58 and fitting them with a sword bayonet.
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 ...
Mississippi Rifles: A Muster Listing of All Known Mississippi Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who Served in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press. ISBN 9780893088019. OCLC 58479353. Rowland, Dunbar (1908). "Mississippi Commands in the Army of the United States in Mexico, 1846–1848".
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The repeating rifle was never issued but was bought privately. Wesson M1859 rifle: The Wesson M1859 was a breech-loading, metallic rimfire cartridge rifle used during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Whitworth rifle: The world's first sniper rifle, it was used particularly by the Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters.