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The War Between the States wrought rapid and impressive change throughout the formerly agrarian South. With the coming of that conflict, factories and foundries that had long been engaged in making plows and farm tools suddenly found themselves gearing up to produce the implements of war.
With this republication of Confederate Carbines & Musketoons, along with its companion volume by the same author, Confederate Rifles & Muskets, the complete story of the South's Civil War longarms manufacturing and procurement is told, both historically and technically.
As with Confederate Rifles & Muskets, this book is the culmination of long years of firearms research and examination. More than just a reprint, Confederate Carbines & Musketoons is in many ways an entirely new book. There are scores of changes including reclassification of some arms, photographs of the only known (probably prototype) carbine made by D.C. Hodgkins & Son of Savannah, plus the addition of much new information gathered since the book's original publication in 1986. Important new chapters have been added on the Le Mat percussion carbines (and their ammunition) purchased and issued by the Confederacy, on the alterations done on old Hall's breechloading arms at many Southern armories, and on the issuance to and use of shotguns by Confederate cavalry (as well as infantry) troops, the significance of which has heretofore been largely unknown and ignored by arms historians.
Dr. Murphy's extensive personal collection of Confederate longarms, probably the largest and finest grouping of its type, along with specimens selected from many of the foremost private and institutional collections in the country, forms the basis for this study. The arms are thoroughly examined within the detailed text, augmented by research into previously unexplored Civil War era records, manuscripts, and other documentation, and in the numerous large and clear photographs.
The history of the time in which Confederate arms were used, the crisis that necessitated their making, and the uses to which they were put both during and after the war, long have intrigued and inspired collectors and researchers. Now, Confederate Carbines & Musketoons puts these arms into their proper perspective--valuable cultural and historic relics of a brave people, and of the romantic era in which they fought their valiant but vain struggle.
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