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American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume 3: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865 (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume 3This third volume in Mollers authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War.
Full description- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Published: 15 December 2011
- Format: Hardback 599 pages
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- Categories: Weapons & Equipment | History Of The Americas | Military History | Militaria, Arms & Armour
- ISBN 13: 9780826350008 ISBN 10: 0826350003
- Sales rank: 177,210
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Full description for American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume 3
This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be considered fully interchangeable. And thanks to the invention of the expanding bullet, rifled arms could be used by an army's entire infantry. For the first time, line infantry were equipped with arms capable of rapid reloading and of consistently hitting a man-sized target at distances as great as three hundred yards. Like the first two volumes of "American Military Shoulder Arms," this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.
