I think this simple tool was one of the most useful for all I've seen pictures from the early war. Domestic manufacturers of pistols of course, smaller than the four outfits named above Dragoon revolvers like these and in still another part of texas (sisterdale) the sisterdale dragoon.44. In addition to swords made by other manufacturers, military volunteers were offered a wide selection of roby weapons that would have included n.c.o.,musician, horse artillery, and cavalry swords for enlisted personnel A foot infantry officer sword, model 1850
The lock is marked hartmann, chemnitz rather than the common malherbe made weapons from liege The book, european bayonets of the american civil war states that the original contract for the arms went to hartmann but the bulk were the belgian manufactured examples. Most all canister consisted of iron balls Great explanation that even i can understand The well made interchangeable parts made it the realization of a dream for ordnance men It was a simple and inexpensive arm that influenced small arms development well into the 20th century.
This would also apply to the richmond muskets In fact most of the information available is on. The confederates made very little coins during the civil war, but it's a bit more complicated than that Had 5 mints around the country that they were using, so when the confederacy came to be, they took over 3 of them, most notably in new orleans The confederates started making coins. It was made in klingenthal which was part of france, but seized by germany from 1870 to 1918.
Any good hard wood could be used, which included sugar maple, red maple, cherry, apple, pear and sometimes ash and butternut (for southern rifles) French muskets followed the walnut trail as did most others, but austrian rifles (lorenz) could sometimes be made of elm and some german and belgian rifles had beech stocks.
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