Bilharz Hall & Co : A Crude Confederate Cavalry Carbine Copy 

Another fun fact: Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik (BASF) had nothing to do with this carbine either.

I haven’t heard the word schistosomiasis since my parasitology lectures with Dr Henk Braig in 2016

Another fun fact: the saying" the whole 9 yards" come from the fact that how ammo you could put in the ammo bays of the RAF spitfire. It also has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS VID!

@@robertgriffin662 The phrase predates WW1 never mind WW2. First used in January 30, 1855.

And another fun fact... The officer who supplied the later troops (in ww 1 or 2) with cars and trucks, GENERAL MOTORS, has nothing to do with this video either. (Sorry but I couldn't resist)

When your options are junk guns or no guns at all, it's a pretty obvious choice.

The Whitworth rifle was an import, so I don't think it's fair to lump the domestic stuff in with it.

@@ryankent2151 Very true, but an impressive range of weapons fielded nonetheless.

most of their good guns are foriegn made accept for the morse

and cs richmond

@@Cristian-nn5jj The Whitwort wasn’t issued by the Confederacy, it was a privately owned weapon.

It was Captain Happy you had to watch out for, ornery old bastard that he was.

And of course there's the softest guy on base, Corporal Punishment

Don´t forget their pedantic boss: General Chaos.

Major Asshole is a actually a nice guy.

Major Downer's daughter Debbie is a sweetheart. If she ever gets married she needs to take her husband's surname to shake the family reputation.

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He had a cousin in the navy, Admiral Failure

@J H you forgot their manservant, corporal punishment.

He was also passing friends with two great generals who've been in virtually every war you can name: The Right Honorable General Mergatroid J. Disorder, and his cousin, Brigadier General John Jacob Jingleheimer Miscommunication III. They pop up every time the military tries to do... basically anything, really.

didnt he have a wife named Nancy and her maiden name was Negative?

Yeah I understand what you mean

For me it's the piecemeal array of small arms, they ways they acquired those arms (blockade running, homegrown crude manufacturing, and smuggling across the Mexican border from French forces) plus the customizations individuals and units made along the way. It makes logistics an absolute nightmare but it makes for a lot of interesting footnotes in books, wikis, and videos.

@@hendriktonisson2915 The Confederate's crudeness in firearms are very interesting.

@@presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 True

I am slayed.

The one inflation calculator I could find that would let me go back to 1860 gave me a value of $1,409.19

That's the easiest way of adjusting for inflation but there were a few gold rushes around that time and gold is now used in electronics as well as jewellery. So it's probably quite a bit less than $3200 but still expensive.

Keep in mind the Confederacy issued its own currency, a Confederate Dollar was worth less than a US Dollar.

@@Hawk1966 honestly, gold seems to work better for inflation before the 1930s. Gold was $20 an ounce from the founding of the US till 1933, IIRC.

@@ScottKenny1978 inflation was almost non existent pre ww1

Indeed the prusso-francian war and subsequent unification from the top, in the context of the failed 1848 bourgeois revolution, came a few years later.

only real kings know that the Franco-Prussian war led to the development of the bicycle industry in Coventry, Birmingham and Sheffield, setting the gears in motion for bicycle rise as a popular vehicle in Britain and beyond

As a german, i know this !

It's kind of irritating how history books refer to people who came from for principalities that would become Germany as just German. While at the same time people of northern Britain will f****** rage if you refer to them as British

@@christianweibrecht6555 I have friends from Argentina whose families emigrated from Swabia during the late 1920s (he was born in Argentina, the family went back to Germany when he was very young, then back to Argentina around 1930; all his uncles and cousins who stayed in Germany ended up on the East Front, and none survived), he, at least, tends to refer to German relatives as being from whichever state they're from. Maybe it's just him/his family.

I suppose if they were a narco state they might have had a snails chance.

It’s sad how they watched like hawks and then literally forgot everything they saw in the the next few wars.. Although that might be also partially due to generational gap and how quickly zeitgeist changes and not entirely negligence..

If you look at a lot of the modern historiography they will argue the South actually had the advantage during the war. While the North did have the manpower and industrial advantage, that isnt everything or the US would have won in Vietnam too. The South did not need to win, they could fight to a draw. This meant the North had to attack, and they had to conquer an area the size of several European nations while the South had the advantage of fighting on the strategic defensive. In battles like Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Harper's Ferry we see how effective static defences could be at this time, abd fighting on the defensive and choosing where to fight your battles the Confederacy could have fought the entire war this war. But they didn't, and lost because of this, not because they never stood a chance in the first place.

@@DTOStudios Well there's also the devaluation of american cotton to consider & of which the British declined to intervene. The initial Japanese strategy of attrition is all well & good until at some point it becomes completely moot due to all the "factors" involved

@@blakexu4943 Devaluation of American Cotton? Um.. What? The American South were pretty much the sole supplier of the entire world's cotton. Once they got blockaded cotton prices rose by a factor of more than 10. Looking at the pre-war value for the metal, an ounce of silver was the equivalent of just 1 lb of mid-war cotton. That means a standard 500 lb bale of cotton was worth 31.25 lbs of pre-war silver or put in a slightly more relatable way, that 1 bale of cotton could buy you 21,000 lbs of flour. Sure the British weren't directly willing to intervene on the side of the South but there were plenty of economic concerns who were willing to do just about anything in exchange for the insanely valuable cotton. The warships CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, and CSS Shenandoah were all built in Britain for the South despite Britain having laws directly forbidding the building of warships for warring parties. You also have to consider that at the time there was already an established abolitionist movement in control of the British government as well. By the time of the US Civil War, the Africa Squadron had been interdicting the slave trade for 50 years. There really was no way that the British government was going to directly support the slavery side in a war resulting from the question of the existence of slavery. Before someone corrects this, I know that Lincoln wasn't originally planning on freeing the slaves, but one of the South's primary reasons for their succession was the belief that the North's majority control of the government would result in the loss of their slaves.

Thank You for your service, sir.

Thank you for your reenactment of service...

Hay I do Union are there a lot of guy reluctant to go out and reenact the gray these days My group was discussing this in one of the few times we got to go out this year

@@LordEvan5 Back in the eighties we in the South saw so many Confederate reenactors that many had to pack extra uniforms to fill Union ranks. I couldn’t hang with the local NSSA unit , unfortunately.

Also just for fun: The "z" in Bilharz is pronounced like a "ts" in German, like in English where you would pronounce it like "zz".

He's repeatedly said that he will do a video on _every_ firearm if he has the chance. When depends on how notable it is and how available it is to him. As to information, though, I think his other videos on Astra pistols mention a book he used, and he may have even done a book review (see that playlist on his channel) on it.

It can be done.british manuals of the era show how to do it.

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Yes, you are.

By that time you use the horse to get the heck out of there.

I always liked that dragon wheellock pistol myself.

the number of henry' guns used was minimal And spences did not show up in any real number until 1864... and then usually i the hands of Cavalry. The main infantry firearms for both sides during the first half of the war was imports from Europe. Both modern Enfields and modern (but used) Lorenze's. And a lot of old, well used smoothbores, that was uprifled before shipment. For the later part of the war US made "springfields" and the british enfields was the typical rifle musket used by both sides. (they where very good at giving each other guns. Most of Grants men had old smoothbroes until the capture of Vicksburg. where they rearmed themselves with modern Enfields that was captured)

Literally wouldn’t have mattered.

Show them Chicago or Detroit today.

No real need too do so.

Of all the breech loader designs tested and used during the civil war, needle fired would have been the worst.

I find it a tragedy the the Union did produce more Henry rifles during the war and issue them to their states regiments, instead of staying with the muzzle loading springfields and Enfield’s.

And yet they weren’t able to manufacture anywhere near the amount of materials they needed. Hell they didn’t even have a single facility for making cannons. Railroad mileage was far far far behind the north. The Confederacy was an agrarian society, not an industrialized one.

@@baneofbanes The Tredegar Works produced about 1,100 pieces of artillery, www.nps.gov/articles/tredegar-iron-works-ironmaker-to-the-confederacy.htm#:~:text=Tredegar%20proved%20invaluable%20to%20the,plating%20for%20Confederate%20naval%20gunboats.. A little research will find that other foundries produced smaller quantities. It was not enough but not bad for an agrarian society.

@@baneofbanes This is the third time I've tried to reply to your comment. This time I'll try without including links. The Tredegar Works in Richmond produced some 1,100 artillery pieces during the War. A Google search will find other Southern foundries producing small quantities. It wasn't enough but it was pretty good for an agrarian society.

Lol

Probably iron

@@robertallen9095 do you think it's wrought iron

@@mohammedimran3670 I don't think they used wrought iron on small arms.they did use it on cannons because of pressure.thats some civil war cannon you see have a band around the breech.wrought iron would have taken too long to process for small arms

@@mohammedimran3670 p.s colt used something they called spring steel in his pistols but I doubt the south had the means to forge it

@RocketSurgeon exactly the reason why I like them.

$45 in the 1860’s was a lot of money. An average working man’s days wages was often $1.

Wait until the current set up breaks apart and pass the salt for that one.

I if I remember correctly the French had not managed to reequip all units with the Chassepot rifles by the time of the Franco-Prussian war.

Ever since I started reading books about the civil war I've been wandering why were the overwhelming majority of American troops equipped with muskets when needle rifles existed ,already proven to be superior ,and we're not insanely expensive

@@christianweibrecht6555 Expensive is a relative word. Per unit not so much. But considering both the Union and the Confederates would have had to either buy manufacturing rights or individual rifles then ship them from European powers..Not so much. Plus there is the psychological aspect to consider. American rifles for American soldiers and all that.

@@clothar23 For the first half of the war, both sides used more imported European firearms than American made firearms. Not until 1864 do the US made "springfield" start to be the standard firearm for both sides... with the Enfield the other one.

@@thomasbaagaard Yes but a muzzle loading musket is still going to be cheaper than a needle firing rifle even if both are coming from Europe. And while the difference isn't likely that substantial per rifle the fact the was a difference matters. Especially when you're both buying in bulk and rapidly trying to arm a military force.

There was a strong feeling of the second American revolution in the south, and that war was fought in a similar situation. Helps to explain the reasoning for attempting to win a impossible war

@Graf von Losinj To an extent, but remember the original symbol of the united States was the Phoenix, not the Eagle. If you understand that, you will find a lot of the reasons why all this happened as it did.

@DOUG HEINS Paronia- fear of that which does not exist. Do the bankers exist? Of course they do, so your argument is invalid upon it's face.

@DOUG HEINS Lol!, you study history not so well at all it seems. Imagine my shock..

@DOUG HEINS Sad. I am a student of history, you are acting juvenile. Thrust parried and return, en ripsote.

That has yet to be made.