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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
Perhaps the most well known foreign designed revolver during the Civil War. It had two barrels, a .42 caliber barrel on top and a 20 gauge shotgun barrel underneath. The creator, a French doctor living in New Orleans, Jean Alexandre LeMat, moved back to France to create more revolvers for the Confederacy. The French made revolvers, however ...
The London Armoury Company was a London arms manufactory that existed from 1856 until 1866. It was the major arms supplier to the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.The same company name was used during World War I to import arms from America such as the Colt New Service Revolver in 455 Eley.
The 30th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Attorney Edward J. Gurley organized the regiment at Waco, Texas, in August 1862 and elected its colonel. Most of the recruits came from Waco and environs.
More than three decades after a rare Civil War gun disappeared from The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., it has made its way home after a Knoxville, Tenn. woman found it in her father's
The Semmerling LM4 is a five-shot, .45 ACP manual repeating double-action pistol designed as a backup gun. American Derringer has also made Mini-Revolvers and the Stainless Steel Pen Pistol Model 2 , which "Transforms From A 'PEN' To A Legal Pistol In 2 Seconds", [ 5 ] although these were also discontinued.
Rodman guns saw little action during the Civil War. Two 10-inch columbiads were used in 1864 and 1865 in Union operations against Fort Sumter. [7] It seems likely, due to the time period in which they were used, that these were Rodman guns rather than earlier model columbiads.
For a Civil War soldier, owning a revolver as a backup gun was important, so Smith & Wesson's cartridge revolvers, the Army Model 2 and the Smith & Wesson Model 1 in caliber .22 rimfire came into popular demand with the outbreak of the American Civil War. Soldiers and officers on both sides of the conflict made private purchases of the ...