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A. H. Waters & Company, 209, 487; commercial sales from, 205; contracts , 205, 206, 206–7, 286; Model 1842 musket and, 210, 210–12, 211; quality from, 323 Abbott, Joseph C., 160; order, 93 acceptance marks, 94, 123, 331; acceptance cartouche, 6, 8, 159, 195, 203, 237, 290, 304, 319, 327–28, 332, 468 accuracy, 226; from bore, 429; rifling for, 22, 248; of sharpshooters’ rifles, 428, 431; trials for, 110–11. See also specific arms the Alamo, 517n2, 523 Albert, William S., 35 Alexander Hitchcock, 74, 74–75 Alfred Jenks & Son, 300–302, 301, 302; contract, 298–99, 328–29; long and short carbines, xxxiii; maker’s identification, 299; Model 1861 rifle musket, U.S. contract, 293, 294n3, 295, 296, 298–99 Allen, Enos G. See Morse, George Woodward Allen & Leisen, Philadelphia, contract deliveries, 57, 59n1 Allen & Morse. See Morse, George Woodward Allin, Erskine, 231, 312, 541; for alteration , 44, 283, 285, 499; criticism from, 323, 537; identification marks, 257, 327; supervision from, 283–84 alteration and state ownership markings : Hewes & Phillips New Jersey (Type I), 73; Hewes & Phillips New Jersey (Type II), 74 alterations: armory marking systems for, 20–21; of barrels, 4, 11–12, 85, 87; bayonets for, 19, 106, 130, 133–36, 144, 146, 151, 159, 162–70, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 237, 238, 533–44; Belgium plan for, 9–10; Benton and, 278; chambered breech for, 55–57, 57–59, 59nn1–8, 60, 87, 87–88; classification for, 6, 6–7; “conversion” as, 3, 3n1; drum bolster, 99–100, 102, 102–3; federal, 5–66; French modification for, 9–10; inspections for, 6–9, 8, 8nn1–2; introduction to, 3–4; machines and implements, 10, 13; to Maynard priming system, xxxiii– xxxiv, 4, 39, 40, 40–42, 41, 42; methods for, 3–4, 9–10; of pan, 12; realteration, 30–31, 42, 56, 95–97, 96; resistance to, 28–30, 35–36; state, 66–88; of state-owned muskets , federal, 15, 15–17, 15nn1–3, 16nn4–10; state ownership markings and, 73, 74; suitability for, 3, 5–7; for USMC, 560. See also specific alteration types; specific arms; specific components; specific manufacturers ; specific states altered muskets: arsenal condemnations of, 34–36; from Greenwood/Carroll, 37, 37–38; pre-Civil War transfers and sales of, 32–34, 32n5, 33; resistance to, 35–36; states and, 28–31, 30, 31, 69–72, 71. See also specific muskets American Military Equipage, 1851–1872 (Todd), 482 Ames Manufacturing Company, Massachusetts: Drake alterations, 165–66; Evans alterations and, 163; Massachusetts and Maine alterations, 152, 154–56, 155; New Hampshire alterations, 161 ammunition: buckshot, 26, 519; gun powder, xxx; minie, 131, 134–35, 137, 520, 533; for Model 1842 percussion musket, 190; for Model 1855 rifle musket, 22–23; for muzzleloading rifled arms, 520; for muzzleloading smooth-bored arms, 519; rifling and, 25, 26 Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (Manchester, New Hampshire), 182; contract, 315, 316, 316; Lindneraltered Model 1819 rifle and, 91–93, 92; Lindner breechloading alteration and, 177–78; sales, 321 Amoskeag single-barreled shotgun, 579, 579–80, 580 angular socket bayonets, 149, 155, 238, 473; authorization for, 162, 377, 460–61; lugs for, 123, 123, 126; Model 1841 rifle alteration for, 164– 70, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170 Anselm Otto, Philadelphia, contract deliveries, 59, 59nn1–2 Anthony, John B., 302 Anthony, S., sporting arms purchases from, 515 armories, 9; alterations marking systems for, 20–21; cone-in-barrel percussion alterations of government-owned flintlock muskets by, 13–15, 14, 14nn1–8; cone-in-barrel percussion alterations of state-owned flintlock muskets by, 15, 15–17, 15nn1–3, 16nn4–10; flintlock musket classi fications at, 8, 8nn1–2; private, 8nn1–2, 341. See also specific armories armory-pattern muzzleloading arms: introduction, 109; Model 1841 rifle, 110, 110–15, 112, 115. See also nonarmory -pattern muzzleloading arms arms: captured, 578; discharge return of, 558; for dragoons, 227–28; federal arsenal repair of, 558; foreign, 128–29, 249, 261, 365–66, 409, 423–24, 472–73, 491, 499, 527, 533, 556; from France, 527; for militia, 343, 565–66; from Prussia, 51–52, 556; second-class replacement of, 557. See also specific arms; specific manufacturers; specific types of arms arsenal cone-in-barrel alteration, 9–10, 30, 67–68; description of, 11–13, 12, 12n1; of muskets, 13–17, 14, 14nn1–8, 15; of rifles, 17...

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