By Joseph G. Bilby
ISBN-10: 0938289799
ISBN-13: 9780938289791
The preferred Civil struggle information columnist has written a different paintings, combining technical information on each one Civil conflict firearm, a frequently miraculous remedy in their genuine use at the battlefield, and a consultant to amassing and firing surviving relics and smooth reproductions.
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4'42'097309034dc20CIP Printed in the United States of America. Page 5 This book is dedicated to the men and women of the North-South Skirmish Association Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Page 7 Contents Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 Chapter I Smoothbores 15 Chapter II The Rifle-Musket 41 Chapter III Sharpshooters 103 Chapter IV Breech-Loading Carbines 129 Chapter V Sixgunsand Some Cold Steel 157 Chapter VI Repeaters 187 Supply and Information Sources 221 Notes 227 Bibliography 237 General Index 247 Firearms Index 251 Page 9 Acknowledgments This book had its origins in a series of columns written for The Civil War News.
N-SSA smoothbore targets are shot at fifty yards, using the one-hundred-yard rifle-musket target. More original arms are seen among the ranks of smoothbore shooters than any other category of N-SSA competition, save, perhaps, carbine. S. Model 1816 flintlock, a gun used in large numbers in the first year of the war, especially in Rebel ranks. (Joseph Bilby) 1850s or 1860s, but such an arm would no doubt void any Dixie warranties and would have to be inspected by the N-SSA Small Arms committee before it could be used in competition.
69-caliber smoothbore muskets, loaded with "buck-and-ball" cartridges, would be. Before reaching the main Confederate position, the brigade encountered Colonel Carnot Posey's Mississippi brigade, which had left the relative security of the road to pursue a retreating Union regiment. The Irishmen leveled their muskets and blasted Posey's men with buckshot and bullets, shooting the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry to shreds and routing the rest of Posey's command. Pushing within thirty yards of the Grayback line, the Irish Brigade slugged it out in a standup fight.
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