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The Model 1861 was a step forward in U.S. small arms design, being the first rifled shoulder weapon adopted and widely issued as the primary infantry weapon (earlier U.S. martial rifles such as the Harpers Ferry Model 1803 rifle were issued to riflemen rather than the infantry as a whole and production and issuance of the Model 1855 prior to ...
Model 1863 Springfield rifled musket and Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon Springfield and Enfield actions. The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as ...
Model 1816, Model 1842 and Model 1855 muskets Confederate Richmond musket (top) along with U.S. Model 1861, British Pattern 1853 Enfield, U.S. Model 1861 muskets and Sharps rifle Here is a number of Springfield Model 1861 contract rifles produced elsewhere except Springfield
Springfield Model 1863 rifled musket and Enfield Pattern 1861 musketoon Springfield and Enfield lockplates. The Springfield Model 1863 was a .58 caliber rifled musket manufactured by the Springfield Armory and independent contractors between 1863 and 1865. The Model 1863 was only a minor improvement over the Springfield Model 1861. As such, it ...
D — 44 Austrian Rifled Muskets, leaf and block sights, quadrangular bayonet (.54 and.55 Cal) E — 36 Austrian Rifled Muskets, leaf and block sights, quadrangular bayonet (.577 Cal) F — 1 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, N.A. and contract. Calibre .58; 29 Austrian Rifled Muskets, leaf and block sights, quadrangular bayonet ...
Model Notes Augustin M1842 musket: The Augustin was an Austrian musket that featured in the U.S. Civil War in very small numbers. Ballard M1861 rifle: Brunswick rifle: A British percussion rifle imported in small numbers by the Confederacy. Charleville musket: French muskets converted to percussion cap from flintlock and used in small numbers.
Between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the regiment drew model 1855, 1861 National Armory (NA) and contract [note 15] rifle-muskets. The regiment reported the following surveys: [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Fredericksburg
I — 35 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.); 22 Enfield Rifled Muskets. Caliber .58 and .577 K — 24 P53 Enfield Rifled Muskets (.58 and .577 Cal.); 38 Austrian Lorenz Rifled Muskets, leaf and block sights, Quadrangular bayonet (.54 and .55 Cal)