M1855 Rilfe-Musket in Western Federal Hands

[Company Tailor]

Re: M1855 Rilfe-Musket in Western Federal Hands

Well the 3rd calafornia volentires (curse my spelling) had the '55 s well. and for those ho dont know they were posted at fort douglas utah. They were also involved in the bear river massacure in idaho

Chase Pinkham

...don't you mean The Battle of Bear River? :wink_smil

I talked to a guy the other day who was up there digging minnie balls on the battlefield. Seems the actual battlefield might go way beyond what was previously thought.

Cheers!

[Pritchett Ball]

Re: M1855 Rilfe-Musket "Minie Musket or Rifle"

One other question. Often times I have read that these were referred to as "Minie Musket," "Minie Rifle," or "Minie Gun" and sometimes with cal. .58 with it. When reading this reference in period writings are they referring to the M1855 rilfe-musket? Or has this reference been used in refering to the 1861 Springfield. I usually have seen this in early war writings.

Rich:

It's good to see you posting again!

I did a search of the Cornell Univercity OR site, and came up with 10 references of "Minie Rifle"...

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?type=simple&slice=1&page=results.layer2.mvmono.within&mvmono=waro&coll=monograph.raw&q1=Minie+Rifle

I have not had time to look thru all of them, but may have what you are looking for...

Kevin Dally