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  2. Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon - Wikipedia

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    Model 1863 Springfield rifled musket and Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon Springfield and Enfield actions. The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as ...

  3. Rifles in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A British 1853 Enfield rifle musket. The second-most widely used rifle of the Civil War, and the weapon most widely used by the Confederates, was the British Pattern 1853 Enfield. The standard weapon of the British Army between 1853 and 1867, like the Springfield the Enfield was a single-shot, muzzleloading rifle musket. Although it had a .577 ...

  4. Rifled musket - Wikipedia

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    Springfield Model 1861 rifle musket Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket. A rifled musket, rifle musket, or rifle-musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. . Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels replaced with rifl

  5. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Deringer M1817 Common rifle: Pattern 1853 Enfield: The Enfield rifle was used by both the North and the South in the American Civil War and was the second most widely used infantry weapon in the war. Fayetteville rifle: Hall rifle: A single-shot breech-loader invented in 1811. A few were used by the Confederacy. Harper Ferry M1803 rifle: Hawken ...

  6. List of Confederate arms manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    over 70 Brooke rifles Shakanoosa Arms Mfg. Co. Rifles Shelby Iron Company: Shelby, Alabama: 1842 Iron plating SC State Military Works Greenville, South Carolina: 1861 Also "State Rifle Works" Spiller & Burr Macon, Georgia: Rifles Samuel Sutherland Richmond, Virginia: Rifles Tallassee Tallassee, Alabama.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading ...

  7. Royal Small Arms Factory - Wikipedia

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    Almost all the weapons in which the Royal Small Arms Factory had a hand in design or production carry either the word Enfield or the letters EN in their name; US Marine firing the L1A1 rifle. Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle-Musket which used the Minié ball ammunition. Snider–Enfield Rifle: an 1866 breech-loading version of the 1853 Enfield.

  8. Pattern 1853 Enfield - Wikipedia

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    The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.

  9. Peters Cartridge Company - Wikipedia

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    The Peters Cartridge Company was a company located along the Little Miami River in Kings Mills, Ohio, which specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production. Founded in 1887 by Gershom Moore Peters, the company supplied military ammunition to various countries during both world wars.