The best quality arms made by any private company are from the London Armoury Company. You'll find various opinions / facts / alternative facts about how many arms imported to the US for the Civil War were from the London Armoury. I believe only a modest percentage of the hundreds of thousands of "enfield" arms imported were from the London ...
The Civil War Monitor magazine assembled a group of 'historians' to select the 20 biggest Civil War celebrities. Is six women enough women? They came in 3rd place, 10th place,14th place,17th place, 18th place, and 19th place. Can anyone one guess what six women made the cut and what place they...
I have coin buttons on one of my commutation jackets. I have a cap made with original civilian flower pattern brass buttons on it so there were substitutes. Soldiers themselves if they had the means and could find them would often replace issued wood buttons with state buttons or alternative brass buttons.
I definitely plan to invest in a quality made Italian bayonet, likely made from spring steel as opposed to carbon steel like most India reproductions. The question is does anyone know of any 1861 bayonets that would fit Pedersoli's 1861 springfield "out of the box?" If not, could anyone give me...
Last week I came across a rather rusty Enfield bayonet, which I immediately recognized as Louisiana numbered and Confederate made. The guy was asking way beyond what a normal Enfield bayonet in that condition would cost, so I made him an offer, still more than he probably expected to sell it...
The only way I can see The Last Full Measure getting made into a movie (or better yet a miniseries) is if somebody can go back and remake Gods and Generals from scratch (and be more faithful to the source material).
There were other C.S.A. domestic manufacturers of pistols of course, smaller than the four outfits named above. For example there was Dance Brothers (of Galveston, Texas) which made a .44-cal. pistol that looked like this Elsewhere in Texas the Tucker & Sherrod company was making .44-cal. Dragoon revolvers like these And in still another part of Texas (Sisterdale) the Sisterdale Dragoon .44 ...
Does anyone have in their collection the humble pocketknife from CW times? I'd like to see them, even if they're repros or custom-made modern ones. I think this simple tool was one of the most useful for all. What about "bowies"? Where they really used? I've seen pictures from the early war...
The well made interchangeable parts made it the realization of a dream for ordnance men. It was a simple and inexpensive arm that influenced small arms development well into the 20th century.
