From Spencer Rifles to M-16s: A History Of The Weapons US Troops Wield In War. By Jeff Schogol. ... When the Army adopted the metallic cartridge rifle following the Civil War, ...

By the time the Civil War ended, some 50,000 had been made, not counting the follow-on .50-cal. Model 1865 manufactured by the Burnside Rifle Co., a plant drawn into production because the main ...

The Austrian Model 1854 Lorenz rifle musket, designed by Lt. Joseph Lorenz around 1852, saw use in numerous European conflicts and was the third most common longarm seen in the American Civil War ...

The Burnside carbine displayed in the Civil War gallery is marked with the 1856 patent and “Cast Steel 1862,” indicating that the carbine was manufactured in the last quarter of 1862. When new ...

In 1956, Lincoln’s shooting session even provided a title for an entertaining but unfortunately often erroneous and fanciful account of the Spencer rifle and carbine’s role in the Civil War, J ...