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Thank you, I enjoyed reading it.

Stillwagon, John. Right Shoulder, Shift: A Reexamination. Southern Guard Living History Association

The link I hit went to a dead site and I would like to read it. Got there from...

You could make 5 new ones out of every 3 of those.

You can put in as much as you can force in the barrel, you should keep it down to 60 or so grains as a good balance of economy, noise and safety.

I tried that and got:
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Yes, if "or what" includes everything else anybody ever used on wood. All of the list could be used, what was on the item you copied?

Got three ready to ship. http://www.boydmiles.com/ Email me using one of the many email buttons on the web site or boydmiles1959@wmconnect.com rather than using the PMs here as I check emails more...

Re-enacting being the way it is any non Indian musket will be allowed at just about any event so if your unit isn't too picky get the one you want. If you plan to use it as an actual firearm then the...

May as well post 130 as it is early in the war and does give the reason for the reduction:

GENERAL ORDERS, , WAR DEPARTMENT,



No. 130. ) Washington, September 14, 1862.

I..The attention...

From Google Books scan to plain text so it is full of errors but still readable. Grant would still be trying to deal with the problem with new orders in March of '65. These orders from 1864 are...

General Orders No. 130 of September 14, 1862 deals with the problem but they would be refined and repeated throughout the war all the way to the March 3d, 1865. General Orders No. 9. That is of...

Depends on the colour of the background, if black it is CSN Surgeon of 12 years service, if blue it is CSN Chief Engineer of 12 years service. Not sure where they got the design so it may have been...

Reread the Wikipedia article on the Snider-Enfield and you will see that it is the 1853 that is being converted not being converted in 1853. It is not the most plainly written but they do mention...

While this battle occurred during the War the newspapers reported very few if any details, most of the news of the day was more locally inclined and filled with reports of our war rather than what...

http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1863-1865/vicksburg/leechs-overcoat/index.php It really looks like the buttons move further from the edge as thy go down. It could be functional, to increase the...

http://www.cwreenactors.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=15419&d=1366675920

With sashes: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/96515791/
Without: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/93502598/

Depending on when and where there would also be the brass handled pointer.

Title: [Chattanooga, Tenn., vicinity. Federal camp by the Tennessee River]
Date Created/Published: [1864?]
Medium: 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.
Summary: Photograph of...

http://www.boydmiles.com/2011_1004fuji0001.jpg If that works it should be the cap, I think of it as more grey than brown but he is selling it at a loss so jump on it.

Look at the posts above, the 1858 account calls them Navy, that would be before the Navy had a Western Gunboat Flotilla to have problems with a .44.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/
As has been given above, search for surgeons and then expand from there. If you have a good enough connection download the big images and you can see a...

A little more to confuse and enlighten: http://ranawayfromthesubscriber.blogspot.com/2011/02/monkey-jackets-pea-jackets-and.html

They are the same, just who uses which may vary. Roundabout is what a civilian would call a short jacket. The branch trimmed and slightly longer jacket as worn by mounted troops in the US Army is a...

Doing a search for it and hit this page and had to share: http://12thnjvolunteerscok.org/Original_Buck_and_Ball_Box.html