American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III - Flintlock Alterations and
Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865
Book description
This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes
muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U. S.
government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period
that includes the Civil War.
These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of
shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American
manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms
having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least
one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be
considered fully interchangeable. And thanks to the invention of the
expanding bullet, rifled arms could be used by an army's entire
infantry. For the first time, line infantry were equipped with arms
capable of rapid reloading and of consistently hitting a man-sized
target at distances as great as three hundred yards.
Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms,
this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms
collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.
