From the Pilot article I entered earlier today.
Other items on display at the Clayton-Blair History Museum near Fayetteville, NC.
MODEL 1855 HARPERS FERRY ARSENAL RIFLE
It was the first standard issue military weapon with a rifled barrel for better range and accuracy with the newly created minie ball. It also used the new Maynard tape primer caps that replaced metal percussion caps.
Only 7,300 were produced from 1857 to early 1961 and only at the Harpers Ferry Armory.
CONFEDERATE FAYETTEVILLE ARSENAL RIFLE
The Harpers Ferry Rifle became the model for the famous Fayetteville Arsenal Rifle. Some 8,700 were made from 1862 to 1864. Am 1863 rifle is also on display.
CONFEDERATE-MADE CARTRIDGE BOX
A soldier-marked, Confederate-made cartridge box and shoulder sling of Jeremiah L. Moore, 7th NC State Troops. He was from Iredell County and wounded in the leg and captured July 3rd, the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg. He died of the wound in 1864. The box and sling were taken on the battlefield and after 105 years of storage and display at a Massachusetts museum, given to the Clayton-Blair Museum in 2006. (I imagine an individual had it before the other museum got it.)
More to Come. --B-R'er
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