Civil War Guns
Firearms of all types grew into a readily available instrument of death during the American Civil War.
1860
The Allen & Wheelock Drop Breech Rifle saw limited service in the American Civil War and only then were they acquired through...
1861
The Bridesburg Model 1861 rifle-musket was produced for the US government during the American Civil War. Production was handl...
1863
The Bridesburg Model 1863 was a follow-up to the Bridesburg Model 1861. The rifle-musket was produced by the Bridesburg Machi...
1856
The Burnside Carbine was a popular carbine rifle fielded across all of the major battlefronts of the American Civil War. The ...
1848
The Colt "Dragoon" (meaning "Dragon" in French) was the brainchild of Samuel Colt himself and went on to become one of his mo...
1849
The Colt Model 1849 "Pocket Revolver" was Colt's answer when replacing their "Baby Dragoon" series of guns. Unbeknownst to Co...
1851
At the end of the 1840's Samuel Colt was hard at work designing a new revolver of .36 caliber, this design becoming the famou...
1855
Early Colt revolvers operated from what was known as an "open frame" design meaning that there was no supporting structure se...
1855
The Colt Revolving Rifle of 1855 - aptly named the "Model 1855" - was an attempt to provide the repeating action of a revolvi...
1860
Colt brought about their New Army Model revolver in 1860 and it quickly proved itself the definitive combat revolver of the t...
1861
Design of the Colt Model 1861 Navy was not unlike Colt's previous "Navy" offering - the Model 1851 Navy - and was essentially...
1862
The success of the original Colt Model 1851 Navy (sold in 215,000 examples) provided the foundation for the Model 1862 Pocket...
1862
The Colt Model 1862 Police percussion revolver was intended for security personnel and followed the design lines of other Col...
1873
The Colt firearms firm certainly hit its stride in the 1800s, helped no doubt by the American Civil War and goings on along t...
1861
The Colt Special Model 1861 Musket was nothing more than a retooled version of the Springfield Model 1861 Musket series. Colt...
1860
The Cook & Brother Carbine was another in the long line of muzzle-loading muskets utilized in the great American Civil War. A...
1860
Many firearms manufacturers of the late 1800s were overshadowed by the likes of Colt and Remington but James Maslin Cooper ma...
1862
The Cosmopolitan Carbine was a percussion-based carbine firearm produced out of the Cosmopolitan Arms Company facility for th...
1853
The Enfield Pattern 1853 (or .577 Enfield) rifle-musket was the standard-issue musket of the British Empire beginning in 1953...
1861
Richard Gatling patented his ferocious weapon in the early 1860s and the type was subsequently used in the American Civil War...
1795
The Model 1795 was a smooth-bore, single-shot, flintlock-based musket and the first such weapon system to be produced within ...
1857
The Harpers Ferry Model 1855 percussion-based rifle-musket saw considerable use during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Th...
1860
While not the "perfect" lever-action repeating rifle, the Henry Rifle was the revolutionary culmination of two previous major...
J.F. Brown of Haverhill, Massachusetts produced a line of high-quality target/sniper rifles during the Civil War. Sights were...
1823
The Lefaucheux 20-Round was one of the notable attempts at designing a revolver that offered the operator a pistol with more ...
1861
The LeMat Revolver was a Civil War handgun carried mainly by mounted Confederate officers during the American Civil War. It w...
1859
Manhattan Firearms Company was established by a committee of businessmen in 1856 in preparation for the expiration of Colt re...
1864
In 1864, Colt's East Armory erupted into flames which destroyed all but two of its buildings. The event could not have happen...
1861
Used almost as widely as the Colt Model 1860 New Model Army revolver, the Remington Model 1861 Army was the another American ...
1862
Remington produced their similar Model 1861 Navy based on the successful and well-liked Model 1861 Army revolvers. The Army r...
1867
Christian Sharps initially spent time under the employ of other firearms manufacturers that included John Hall at the fabled ...
1860
Christopher Spencer (1833-1922) proved an inventor at heart and one of his most storied creations became the repeat-fire, lev...
1861
At the beginning of the American Civil War, both the North and the South relied heavily on imported Enfield rifles from Brita...
1963
Southerner Jere H. Tarpley of Greensboro, North Carolina developed his aptly-named, breech-loading "Tarpley Carbine" of .52 ...
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