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ORLAND, MAINE SOLDIER Antique CIVIL WAR COLT M1861 Rifle-MUSKET .58 1864 Private to Sergeant Company A ME 14th Infantry
Guns International #: 102537880 Seller's Inventory #: 230344
Category: Civil War Rifles - Colt Rifles - Antique
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State: Missouri
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Description:
ORLAND, MAINE SOLDIER Antique CIVIL WAR COLT M1861 Rifle-MUSKET .58 1864
Private to Sergeant Company A ME 14th Infantry
Here we present an antique Civil War U.S. Colt Special Contract Model 1861 Rifle-Musket, produced in 1864 at the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. This one is signed “Edwin J. Bowden”, the original user of this rifle. Bowden (b.1842) was 19 years of age when he enlisted as a Private in the Maine 14th Infantry in December of 1861. His regiment was immediately sent all the way to Mississippi
. He served throughout the entire war, fighting in the Battle of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, and Middletown. He fell sick and was hospitalized at Marine Hospital in New Orleans, LA in July of 1862. He re-enlisted in January of 1864. Records show he was promoted to Corporal and then Sergeant in 1865 before he mustered out. Please see the attachments of the Regiment’s service history from December 1861 to August 1865 (notice how many men were lost due to battle versus disease). He married in 1867, settled in Winterport, and the couple had six girls and one boy! He was a member of both the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Warren Post #66 as well as a Mason. He died in 1918 and is buried in Oak Kill Cemetery in Winterport, Maine.
The Model 1861 is representative of the “everyman’s” rifle during the war. About 1.5 million rifle-muskets were made in the U.S., over 800,000 of which were made by the Springfield Armory. This was the last hurrah of the rifle-musket as arms development and tactics rapidly advanced during the short period of the American Civil War. Nevertheless, the 1861 represented new technology as it was made for use with the Minié ball, a hollow based, conical projectile that was small enough to quickly push down the muzzle of a rifled barrel and expanded to create a good gas seal unlike a solid, round ball. Almost immediately after the war, the US military switched from the old muzzle loading type weapons to the newer breech loading rifles, bringing an end to the musket as a standard frontline firearm in American history.
Colt’s Special production began in September of 1862 while the war was in full swing. The Union was still trying to make up for arms shortages and the destruction of the Harpers Ferry Armory with production at Springfield, supplementing this with contracts with over 20 other contractors, like Colt, for rifle-muskets. Colt contracts with the Federal Government, along with State Governments, resulted in approximately 100,000 muskets being produced.
The overall condition is good. Original patina. The action is excellent. The bore is in good shape for age with thin rifling. The walnut stock is in good condition, lightly refinished, and solid.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 40 inches.
Caliber: .58 Percussion
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$3600
#230344
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Antique: Yes