American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume 3: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865

Contents

Contents Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction xxiii 180. The Percussion System xxix 180.3 Invention and Development xxix 180.5 Adoption of the Percussion System xxxii Part I: Alterations 183. Introduction to Alterations 3 185 Federal Alterations to Percussion 5 185.1 Federal Inspection and Classification of Flintlock Muskets 5 185.2 Arsenal Cone-in-Barrel Alteration 9 185.21 Description of the Alteration 11 185.22 Arsenal Alterations of Muskets 13 185.223 Federal Alteration of Government-Owned Muskets 13 185.227 Federal Alteration of State-Owned Muskets 15 185.23 Arsenal Alteration of Rifles 17 185.24 Armory- and Arsenal-Alteration Marking Systems 20 185.25 Sales of Condemned Flintlock Muskets 21 185.26 Rifling, and Rifling and Sighting 22 185.27 Altered Muskets Issued to States 28 185.28 Pre–Civil War Transfers and Sales of Altered Muskets 32 185.29 Civil War Condemnations of Arsenal-Altered Muskets 34 185.3 U.S. Contract Cone-in-Barrel Alterations 36 185.35 Greenwood and Hall, Carroll & Company Contract Alterations 36 185.4 Maynard Lock Alterations 38 185.43 Nippes Contract Maynard Lock Alteration 39 185.45 Frankford Arsenal Maynard Lock Alteration 42 185.455 City of Philadelphia Variations 50 185.5 Hammer-Mounted Maynard Alterations 52 185.53 Harpers Ferry Maynard Alteration 52 185.55 New York Arsenal Ward’s Hammer Alteration 53 185.6 Butterfield Self-Priming Lock Alterations 54 185.8 Chambered Breech Alterations and Realterations 55 Contents viii 185.81 Civil War Contract Chambered Breech Alterations and Realterations 56 185.82 Descriptions of Contract Chambered Breech Alterations 60 185.83 Hewes & Phillips U.S. Contract Chambered Breech Alteration 61 185.84 J. Hitchcock U.S. Contract Chambered Breech Alteration 62 185.86 Leman U.S. Contract Chambered Breech Alterations 63 185.862 Leman-Altered U.S. Muskets 64 185.864 Leman-Altered Austrian Muskets 64 185.866 Leman-Altered Indian Trade Guns 65 185.89 J. Wurfflein U.S. Contract Alteration 66 188. State Alterations of Flintlock Muskets 67 188.2 New Jersey 67 188.21 Alterations Prior to the Civil War 67 188.212 State Arsenal Cone-In-Barrel Alterations 67 188.214 Frankford Maynard Lock Alterations 68 188.25 Civil War Alterations 69 188.252 New Jersey State Arsenal–Altered Muskets 69 188.255 New Jersey State Arsenal–Altered Rifles 70 188.258 New Jersey State Contract–Altered Muskets 71 188.4 New York 74 188.43 Alexander Hitchcock Alterations 74 188.47 Ward’s Hammer Alteration 75 188.6 Ohio 78 188.65 Miles Greenwood State Contract–Altered Muskets 78 188.8 Pennsylvania 79 188.83 Pennsylvania State Alterations 80 188.834 Leman-Pennsylvania Contract Musket Alterations 80 188.835 Leman-Pennsylvania Contract Rifle Alterations 82 188.837 Butterfield-Pennsylvania Contract Self-Priming Lock Alterations 84 188.838 Butterfield-Pennsylvania Contract Chambered Breech Alterations 86 188.87 City of Philadelphia Chambered Breech Alterations 87 191. Union Defense Committee–Altered Hall Model 1819 Rifle 89 193. Lindner-Altered Model 1819 Rifle 91 195. Morse Cartridge Realteration of Model 1816 Muskets1 95 1 Morse-altered Model 1841 rifles are described with other Model 1841 rifle alterations. Contents ix 198. Civilian, Confederate, and Other Alterations of Flintlock Arms 98 198.2 Drum Bolster Alteration 99 198.23 Striker-in-Flint Cock 100 198.25 New Percussion Hammer 101 198.27 Colt Drum Bolster Alteration 102 198.5 Brazed Bolster Alteration (Confederate Government, Alabama State and Contract, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina Arsenal and Contract, Glaze & Flagg, South Carolina and Virginia) 104 Part II: Armory-Pattern Muzzleloading Shoulder Arms 200. Introduction to Armory-Pattern Muzzleloading Arms 109 201. Model 1841 Rifle 110 201.1 Harpers Ferry Armory 110 201.2 U.S. Contract Model 1841 Rifle 115 201.3 State Contract Model 1841 Rifles 122 201.32 Glaze & Radcliffe Contract Whitney Rifles, South Carolina 122 201.35 Palmetto Armory Rifles, South Carolina 123 201.37 George W. Tryon Rifles, Republic of Texas 127 201.4 Harpers Ferry Alterations of the Model 1841 Rifle 127 201.41 Harpers Ferry (Type I) Alterations 141 201.411 Harpers Ferry (Type IA) Alteration 141 201.412 Harpers Ferry (Type IB) Alteration 142 201.42 Harpers Ferry (Type II) Alterations 143 201.421 Harpers Ferry (Type IIA) Alteration 143 201.422 Harpers Ferry (Type IIA Regraduated) Alteration 144 201.423 Harpers Ferry (Type...