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- Confederate Richmond Rifle-Musket, 1864 - During the Civil War, the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, was also a center of arms manufacture for the South. At Richmond's armory, workmen made rifles like this one on machinery taken from the United States armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This captured machinery turned out near-copies of the U.S.-model rifles made in the Federal armories in the North.
- 1864
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Confederate Richmond Rifle-Musket, 1864
During the Civil War, the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, was also a center of arms manufacture for the South. At Richmond's armory, workmen made rifles like this one on machinery taken from the United States armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This captured machinery turned out near-copies of the U.S.-model rifles made in the Federal armories in the North.