Guns International #: 102527126
Seller's Inventory #: 230660

Category - Civil War Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Civil War Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

1862 CONFEDERATE Antique C.S. RICHMOND “HUMPBACK” Rifle-Musket Military Weapon for SOUTHERN STATES

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1862 CONFEDERATE Antique C.S. RICHMOND “HUMPBACK” Rifle-Musket

Military Weapon for SOUTHERN STATES

Here we present an antique Confederate C.S. Richmond Marked “Humpback” Rifle-Musket, made circa 1862 in Richmond, Virginia. At the start of the American Civil War, the Confederacy suffered from a lack of resources with the capability to produce small arms weapons. Virginia appropriated funds to modernize the Old State Armory building in Richmond with arms-making machinery manufactured in England. But the confrontation at Fort Sumter initiated the Union blockade which prevented delivery of the machinery. In April 1861, the Confederacy led by Thomas Jonathan Jackson, more commonly known as “Stonewall” Jackson, captured the Union held town of Harper’s Ferry in western Virginia, and salvaged the machinery used to manufacture Springfield Model 1855 muskets. Confederate troops captured 33,993 black walnut stocks along with the machinery. The machinery and stocks were shipped on the Winchester and Potomac Railroad to Winchester, Virginia, where they were transferred by wagons over the Valley Pike to be reloaded onto the Manassas Gap Railroad at Strasburg, Virginia for delivery to Richmond. The rifling machinery was transferred to the Fayetteville Arsenal.

The original Virginia Manufactory of Arms was a state-owned manufacturer of firearms and arsenal in what today is Richmond, Virginia. It was established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1798 to supply the Virginia militia with firearms. The factory operated from around 1802 to 1821. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the works were revived as the Richmond Armory, eventually utilizing the machinery captured from Harpers Ferry in April 1861. The Richmond Armory Rifle-Muskets are easily identified by the hump-back lock plate made from forgings and dies for the U.S. Model 1855 Maynard tape primer lock plate that were captured at Harpers Ferry. While the Model 1855 lock was made to be milled out for the use of paper primers, Richmond left the locks intact and simply used the standard percussion caps directly on the nipple. This musket represents the most numerous domestically produced longarm of the Confederacy and one that would have been found in the infantry’s hands most often.

The overall condition is fair. Dark patina throughout. The markings on the lock have been crudely restamped. No visible markings on the barrel. The action is strong, the barrel has been smoothbored to about .62 caliber and is dim. Replacement ramrod and rear sight. The walnut stock has a cut/joint under the rear barrel band; shows much use and remains solid. The lock inletting is of the Richmond type.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 40 inches.

Caliber: .62 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1750

#230660

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Antique: Yes