Folks,
While doing some research on Johnsons Brigade I was reading a little about the 25th TN. The author (R.C. Sanders) makes mention that the 25th received captured weapons from a Federal home-guard. "...received as a great treat, as it was then only partly armed with what were called Tennessee Rifles."
Later at Red Sulphur Springs, TN. "Here the regiment received about three hundred Tennessee Rifles."
A quick Google search yielded the obvious hunting rifles of the period, but found no examples of standardized military weapon that was called a "Tennessee Rifle"
My library doesn't contain any information on these, with the exception of the aforementioned quotes. Has anyone ever run across a reference like this before or seen an example of one of these rifles?
While doing some research on Johnsons Brigade I was reading a little about the 25th TN. The author (R.C. Sanders) makes mention that the 25th received captured weapons from a Federal home-guard. "...received as a great treat, as it was then only partly armed with what were called Tennessee Rifles."
Later at Red Sulphur Springs, TN. "Here the regiment received about three hundred Tennessee Rifles."
A quick Google search yielded the obvious hunting rifles of the period, but found no examples of standardized military weapon that was called a "Tennessee Rifle"
My library doesn't contain any information on these, with the exception of the aforementioned quotes. Has anyone ever run across a reference like this before or seen an example of one of these rifles?
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