Powder, minie ball and wad, tap the three down into the rifle barrel, slip percussion cap onto the firing nipple ... was shooting a Civil War-era rifle, possibly the first time it was fired ...

The rifle was a standard percussion cap musket and saw extensive usage by both sides over the course of the conflict. By the end of the Civil War, over 130,000 Colt Special Model 1861 muskets were ...

The rifle was a standard percussion cap musket and saw extensive usage by both sides over the course of the conflict. By the end of the Civil War, over 130,000 Colt Special Model 1861 muskets were ...

It was the standard longarm of regular Army forces at the start of the Civil War and ... to that of a toy cap gun. The rifle-musket could still be fired with the conventional percussion cap.

1807 - Percussion-detonating principle patented. 1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use ... Introduced at the start of the Civil War, Spencer repeating guns were technically advanced ...

Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received ... units were armed with percussion-cap, single shot, muzzleloading rifled muskets instead of smoothbore ...