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To: Bilow who wrote (689640)

2/9/2013 2:08:49 PM

From: J_F_Shepard

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Just found this and noted I hadn't answered you......sorry bout that.

Okay so you're a little confused about weapons. As far as I know, there were no smooth bore shoulder fired weapons used in the civil war. The only smooth bore weapons I'm aware of from the Civil War era were cannon. So go ahead, show me wrong here.

U.S. Model 1842 Musket Manufactured at the Harpers Ferry Arsenal, springfield Arsenal, and a handful of other U.S. arsenals prior to 1855, these smoothbore weapons were still in use by a number of Union regiments at Gettysburg including the 12th New Jersey Infantry, 155th PA Infantry, and the 5th and 9th PA Reserves to name a few. Beginning in 1856, many of these were converted into .69 caliber rifles and many of these were in use at Gettysburg as well. The 9th MAssachusetts Infantry had the model 42 rifled muskets in two of the regiment’s companies, the remainder being armed with the Model 42 smoothbores.

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And the following chart is from: "http://www.battleofgettysburg.us/infantrybattletactics/

Battle	Date	Time Frame	Combined Casualties*	Casualties per Hour	Infantry Weaponry
American
Antietam	1862	12 hours	22,000	1833	70% rifled muskets; 30% smoothbores
2ndManassas	1862	2 days	24,000	1000	“
Chancellorsville	1863	4 days	30,000	313	”
Gettysburg	1863	3 days	43.000	597	“

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