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The Model 1861, with all of its variants, was the most commonly used longarm in the American Civil War, with over 700,000 manufactured. The Model 1863 also has the distinction of being the last muzzle-loading longarm produced by the Springfield Armory. The Model 1863 was produced in two variants.
The Merrill rifle was produced from 1862 to 1865 with a total quantity estimated at over 800. The rifle was a .54 caliber, single -shot, percussion, breechloader with an action identical to the Merrill Carbine, but with a 33-inch barrel, two barrel bands, and a lug for attaching a bayonet. It also had a brass patch box similar to the First Type ...
Rifles Contract with N. C. government for 10,000 rifles. Marks, “M. J. & G.” Montgomery Arsenal Montgomery, Alabama: 1861 Rifles (1864) Morse Augusta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina: Carbines George W. Morse Greenville, South Carolina.50 caliber breech-loading carbines 1,000 Murdoch Morrison Gun Factory Laurel Hill, North Carolina ...
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 Sharps carbine was a falling-block firearm used during and after the American Civil War. The carbine version was very popular with the cavalry of both the Union and Confederate armies and was issued in much larger numbers than the full-length rifle. Sharps & Hankins M1862 carbine
In spite of this, few of the carbines were immediately ordered by the government, but this changed with the outbreak of the Civil War, when over 55,000 were ordered for use by Union cavalrymen. [3] This made it the third most popular carbine of the Civil War; only the Sharps carbine and the Spencer carbine were more widely used. [4]
The Tarpley Carbine was a Confederate weapon produced and used during the American Civil War; however, it was not produced in great numbers. The Tarpley Carbine was a breechloader, and was comparable in this sense to the Sharps Rifle and Carbine more widely used by the Union. On Civil War Artillery, there are some notes about the Carbine's ...
Earl J. Coates and Dean S. Thomas, An Introduction to Civil War Small Arms. Ian V. Hogg, Weapons of the Civil War. Chris Kyle and William Doyle, "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms". Philip Leigh Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies, (Yardley, Penna.:, Westholme Publishing, 2015), 214