Description
This book contains: Systems of firearms and forms of projectiles for them, American trials of the 1850s that led to the adoption of elongated expanding bullets by the U. S. military An overview of the Ordnance Department 1855 to 1865, Roles of various Federal and Northern state arsenals and their fabrication of small arms ammunition during the Civil War, Round ball and Mefford ammunition for smootbore muskets, Regulation .54, .58, .69, .71, and.79 elongated balls for rifle muskets Patented and purchased rounds for .58 cal arms Studies of the Gardiner explosive, Shaler sectional, and Williams patent bullets Information on gun cotton, blanks, and bullet making equipment Detailed text with numerous photos, drawings, charts, and original correspondance.
Author: Dean S. Thomas
Publisher: Thomas Publications
Year: 1997
Pages: 333
Condition: New
Binding: Hard bound
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