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The Model 1840 Cavalry Saber was based on the 1822 French hussar 's sabre. Unlike its replacement, the Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber, the M1840 has a ridge around its quillon, a leather grip wrapped in wire (rather than grooves cut into the wooden handle) and a flat, slotted throat. It is 44 inches (110 cm) long with a 35-inch (89 cm) blade [1 ...
Leather scabbard. The Model 1840 noncommissioned officers' sword was adopted by the United States military in 1840. Based primarily on a sword used by the French Army, the model 1840 NCO proved somewhat heavy hilted and ill balanced. For over 70 years, it was widely used by the Army; today its usage is restricted to ceremonial occasions. [1]
The U.S. Model 1840 light artillery saber has a brass hilt and knuckle-bow of about 6 inches in length, the grip wrapped in leather and bound with brass wire, and a blade of 32.25 inches in length. Unlike the Model 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber the artillery model has no basket. This model was one of the many weapons produced by the Ames ...
J.E.B. Stuart with his 1860 saber. It is shorter, lighter and less curved than the 1840 model 1860 saber. The Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber (also known as the M1862 as this was when the first 800 were issued) [1] is a long sword made of steel and brass, used by US cavalry from the American Civil War [2] until the end of the Indian wars; some were still in use during the Spanish–American War ...
A sabre (French: , or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the hussars, the sabre became widespread in Western Europe during the Thirty Years' War. Lighter sabres also became ...
M1840 cavalry saber: Issued to Union cavalry. M1840 light artillery saber: Issued to mounted artillery. M1850 army staff & field officer's sword: Regulation officer's sword, though in practice most officers used cavalry sabers. Southern officers sometimes carried ancestral blades from the American Revolutionary War or even from the War of 1812.
The 1822 dress regulations mandated the introduction of a new sword, to replace the 1803 flank officer's sabre and the spadroon bladed 1796 line infantry officer's sword. The sword featured a 32.5-inch-long (830 mm), slightly curved blade of what was known as the 'pipe-back' design, a cross-section sometimes referred to as 'key-hole' shape in ...
Mameluke sword. Model 1832 foot artillery sword. Model 1840 army noncommissioned officers' sword. Model 1840 Cavalry Saber. Model 1840 light artillery saber. Model 1850 Army Staff & Field Officers' Sword. Model 1852 Naval Officers Sword. Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber. Model 1902 Army Officers' Sword.