Although parts and tooling for the Model 1855 Springfield were moved from Harpers Ferry to Richmond in April 1861 to make the C.S. Richmond guns, the distinctive humpback lockplate remained, but ...

And in Springfield, after weeks of delays and false starts, the 27th Massachusetts under the command of former city clerk Horace C. Lee would be leaving the city in two days to began an odyssey of ...

Re-enactors with the 14th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, wearing wool, Federal Blue uniforms and Brogan boots, fired 1861 Springfield percussion rifles by file, rank and independently at the ...

ORWIGSBURG – Hearing the sound of an 1861 Springfield rifled musket being fired in the middle of Centre Square, downtown Orwigsburg, is not something you hear every day. The musket, sounding ...