I came across a snippet in the Cincinnati Gazette from 1 February 1862 that I found interesting. I know that flank companies frequently carried weapons different from the line companies, but I'd never come across an instance where variations of the same musket were carried within a regiment. "The 64th and 65th OV (Ohio Volunteers), the two regiments raised by Senator John Sherman, are well armed and equipped. The arm is the new Springfield rifled musket with the Maynard primer and raised sight. The flank company sights are for nine hundred yards, the other for five hundred yards."
FWIW.
Jim
FWIW.
Jim
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