Original U.S. Civil War J.H. Merrill M1858 2nd Model Saddle Ring Breech Loading Carbine - Serial 10575 Belgian Militaria United States Army Coast Artillery

United States Army Coast Artillery Corps In WWIAs with the rest of the US Armed Forces

The Tripod has it's original brass Data Plate impressed "TRIPOD 303’ MAXIM

The Patrol then started back up the hill

but painted with ochre-colored urishi lacquer

though it may have been rifled at some point in the past

Original U.S. Civil War J.H. Merrill M1858 2nd Model Saddle Ring Breech Loading Carbine - Serial 10575 Belgian Militaria United States Army Coast ArtilleryOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice single shot percussion breech loading Civil War Saddle Ring Carbine. As they use both a cap and a type of breech loaded cartridge, they are often referred to as "capping breech loaders". Somewhere around 14,500 were made by J. H. Merrill of Baltimore for the Union Cavalry, mostly between 1863 and 1865. The carbines were produced in two versions: First Type and Second Type. The First Type included