Videos tagged with Civil War Weapons

This video delves into the historical significance of the Breech-Loading Maynard Carbine, highlighting its impact as a game-changer on the Civil War battlefield. The content focuses on a specific firearm model and its role in a major historical conflict. The description also includes a call to action for viewer support via Patreon.

This video segment from "American Rifleman Television" focuses on the Burnside carbine, a significant firearm used by cavalry during the American Civil War. It explores the carbine's unique breech-loading design, its inventor Ambrose Burnside's multifaceted career (including his role in the NRA's founding), and its historical context as the third most popular cavalry carbine of the war, trailing the Sharps and Spencer. The discussion highlights the rapid pace of firearm development during the era, rendering the Burnside technologically obsolete within a decade. Despite its eventual limitations and the Burnside Company's bankruptcy, the carbine is recognized as an important step in firearm evolution.

This video delves into the Tallassee Carbine, the Confederate States of America's last-ditch effort to design a standard pattern cavalry carbine in 1863. The design was quickly developed at the Richmond Arsenal, featuring a 25-inch barrel and brass furniture with an Enfield-style lock. Due to security concerns in Richmond, production was moved to Tallassee, Alabama, utilizing a former cotton mill. Despite efforts to establish the Tallassee Arsenal, production was slow, and only a few hundred carbines were completed by April 1865, before the Confederacy's collapse. These carbines never saw combat, and their ultimate fate remains uncertain, with theories suggesting they were used for mill rebuilding. Today, fewer than a dozen are known to exist, primarily in museum collections. The video highlights the historical significance of this rare firearm and its connection to the Confederacy's final struggles.

This video explores the SC Robinson Confederate Sharps Carbine, a firearm produced during the American Civil War. Facing a shortage of armaments, the Confederacy relied on entrepreneurs like Samuel Robinson, who established the Robinson Arms Manufactory in Richmond, VA. Initially contracted to convert flintlock muskets, Robinson was tasked with producing a copy of the Sharps carbine for Confederate cavalry. Between December 1862 and March 1863, approximately 1900 carbines were made by Robinson. Impressed by his work, the Confederate government bought out his operation in March 1863, converting it into a government arsenal that continued producing Sharps carbines until the war's end, adding another 3500 units. The video details the distinguishing marks between Robinson's early production and later government-issued carbines, including serial number ranges and lock plate markings.

This video explores the Burnside carbine, a significant early metallic cartridge firearm invented by Ambrose Burnside, famous for both his Civil War command and the hairstyle named after him. The carbine's innovation lay in its metallic cartridge that sealed the breech, though it required a separate percussion cap for ignition. Despite its initial promise and significant production during the Civil War (53,000 units across five variants), its cartridge design became obsolete by the war's end. The video details Burnside's unsuccessful attempts to get his carbine adopted before the war and its subsequent promotion and eventual decline under Charles Jackson's ownership.