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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, ... (Our Rifles), 1920, pp. 219-220. Civil War Guns and Weapons at thomaslegion.net;
Henry M1860 repeating rifle: The Civil War precursor to the Winchester repeating rifle based on early lever-action repeating rifles made by New Haven Arms Company Co. These highly prized weapons were privately purchased by those who could afford them. Joslyn rifle: The Joslyn was made in both percussion and rimfire configuration. Lorenz rifle
During the American Civil War, an assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield.Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union and Confederate armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first ...
The 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles was a unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War, [1] and was the only Union Mississippi unit created during the Civil War other than regiments of the United States Colored Troops [2]
John Jenkins Poindexter (c. 1816 –1870) was an American slave trader, commission merchant, school commissioner, and steamboat master of Louisiana and Mississippi.He served in the Mexican-American War as a junior officer in the Mississippi Rifles.
Pages in category "American Civil War rifles" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... M1819 Hall rifle; M1841 Mississippi rifle; Maynard ...
The "Mississippi Rifles" [1] or the 155th Infantry Regiment, is Mississippi's oldest National Guard unit. Its history predates statehood, back to June 1799, and it is the seventh oldest infantry regiment in the United States Army .