Firearms of the Civil War

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Firearms of the Civil War

• Angelique Punt
• Seth Brown

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Colt Revolver

• Colt revolvers it had fully interchangeable parts
  and was easy to disassemble.
• The revolver was also known as the "Cap N Ball"
  gun. Its sources of ammunition were black
  powder, ball shots, and percussion caps.
• The revolver was favored greatly by the Union
  Army Officers, the Colt had multiple styles such
  as the Navy and the Sheriff which varied in
  barrel length.
• The Colt revolver was cheap, accurate, and easy
  to mass produce making it easy to distribute

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Muskets

• Muskets had barrels that had grooves in them to
  help the bullet spiral. This helped with long
  distance accuracy.
• Muskets fired hollow bullets, making it sure to
  kill anything within 100 yards-doubling the
  smoothbore muskets range (the old model musket).
• The hollowed-out bullets would tear through flesh
  and damage vital organs and rarely left the body.
  
• The bullets broke bone easily and destroyed the
  tissue or flesh around the wound.

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Henry Repeating Rifle

• The U.S. Government bought 1,731 Henry Repeating
  Rifles.
• These guns were the most reliable, and most
  popular of the time.
• The guns magazine could hold 15 shots which
  could be emptied in about 11 seconds.
• Some historians believe that if this gun was
  invented sooner the war could have been one to
  almost two years shorter, due to the accuracy of
  the gun!

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Light 12-pounder M-1857 (Napoleon)

• The most common cannon used in both the North and
  the South.
• Within 300 yards the cannon was extremely
  accurate.
• The cannon could shoot about 1700 yards although
  there was no need for one to shoot over 500 yards.

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Six-pounder M-1841

• Confederates used this cannon due to lack of
  funds.
• This firearm was inherited from the Mexican War.
• The cannon was used since it was all the
  government could afford.

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3-inch ordnance rifle

• Next generation cannon for the time period
• A favorite of both Union and Confederate.
• Light weight and extremely accurate, its range
  up to about 1850 yards.

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12-pound Howitzer

• The range is about 1100 yards.
• Made in the North at Tredegar Iron Works in
  Virginia.
• Caused many casualties.
• Light weight only about 780 pounds compared to
  the Napoleon which was about 1230 pounds.