The Model 1855 Springfield in the Civil War Northern states also received Model 1855 rifle-muskets on their yearly militia allotments in the late 1850s. Connecticut received 1,020 M1855s by ...

The Model 1842 musket was widely used in the Mexican-American War and by both Union and Confederate forces in the Civil War. The Model 1855 Springfield musket was the first U.S. regulation firearm ...

The rifle’s muzzle velocity was roughly 1,000 feet per second, which gave it lethal power at range as well. The Civil War was the last war in which the Springfield Model 1861 saw significant ...

From television Westerns to the approaching Civil War centennial ... to Springfield muskets that quantities of the original firearms were inadequate to meet. And so was born the replica firearm ...

The new Arsenal at Springfield was built to contain 500,000 muskets or rifles. It was well stocked when the traitor Floyd became Secretary of War; he depleted it to fill the arsenals at the South ...