Author: JOHN D. MCAULAY
Publisher: Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Feb 2007
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-931464-25-1
Synopsis
A Whole New Look at U.S. Carbines in Service. Collectors & historians often wish that they could make their guns "speak." This is about as close as it gets! Many illus; 256 pgs.
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A Whole New Look at U.S. Carbines in Service
From best-selling author John McAulay comes this exciting new guide to carbines from the Civil War onward. What sets this book apart from previous studies is its exhaustive coverage of which units received which carbines - and specific details of how they performed in the hands of the troops. Learn exactly what the men in the field thought of these guns...often in their own words! Collectors and historians often wish that they could make their guns "speak." This is about as close as it gets!
Carbines include:
Ballard Sharps & Hankins
Burnside Sharps
Cosmopolitan Spencer
Gallager Warner
Gibbs Wesson
Joslyn Jenks
Lindner Remington
Maynard Rolling Block
Merrill Trapdoor Springfields (all varieties)
Model 1847 Musketoon Ward-Burton
Pistol Carbines Krags
Starr Hotchkiss
Smith
