Sharpshooter Weapons - Vol. IV, Episode 6 

Thanks for sharing your family story!

Woah dude that's a really cool story. 3 of my 3rd great grandpa's fought for the Union one was a Zouave in the 2nd Delaware trying to get a copy of his uniform made since we can't find the original.

My reenacting group is talking about doing that unit, do you have any more information or sources on them?

Blablabla, my g-dad was fighting in Stalingrad, so what? Although my g-dad was actually a simple "Sturmpionier", but they loose Lots of soldiers , so he was unfortunately sent to a kind of a "anti-tank-detachment". Man, this little men dug into a camouflaged 4 foot foxhole, let a T-34 tank run over him, then jumped up from behind and threw a grenade through the hatch. THIS IS a story! Your gggg-father, on the other hand, was on vacation.

@@Joebonjoe your grandfather did one thing wrong, creating your father who created you.

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It's meant to be a representative example but is not a true Dimmick-marked rifle. It's a standard .36 caliber heavy barrel hunting rifle with a J. Golcher lock that I've owned for a number of years. A nearly identical rifle is pictured being held by one of the Hollis brothers of Company E, 66th Illinois.

Drawing done by Winslow Homer.

If you mean a handgun, generally we find it very rare that any infantry in the Civil War regularly carried them. When interpreting the troops, many of us look to be plain, every day, and common - and a pistol does not fit with that goal.

@@CivilWarDigitalDigest I meant did Civil War sharpshooters carry any other guns besides their rifle?

Sorry. I missed your question! Depending on the weapon, some of them were fitted with bayonets. In other cases many of the weapons are good at range. In some cases, it seems the man swapped out in the federal army although I have not seen in the confederate army. Sorry to not be more help!

@@CivilWarDigitalDigest Thanks :D

I think some of them had spotters that would keep a look out on their surroundings

The pattern of 1856 short rifle was an iron mounted two band rifle with a barrel of the same weight and twist rate of the pattern of 1853 rifle-musket. Later the naval pattern of 1858 was introduced which featured a heavier barrel and higher rate of twist, improving accuracy. Finally, the pattern of 1860 rifle (iron mounted) adopted the heavier barrel of the naval rifle. By far the most common British rifle imported by the south was the P56. The British were keen to sell these as surplus and replace them with the superior P60. Interestingly enough Caleb Huse, the CS agent in the UK only ultimately purchased 700 P58 rifles as part of his contracts for Enfield "short" rifles (making them account for only .07% of the short rifles ordered for CS use!) Incidentally, this is the only model widely reproduced today, making it grossly over-represented! For further reading check out "The English Connection" by Pritchard & Huey. It is a superlative volume and I cannot recommend it enough.

WWandCompany I stand corrected sir. I was unaware that the army had made theirs first. I did look in to that book and the only copy that I could find was well over 100$

That's what they go for, though they are worth a lot more. They are hard bound and full of thousands of high resolution color pictures. I like to say it's the sort of reference book I wish I'd had when I was young! FYI you can find them for $100 on the College Hill Arsenal website. Tim Prince (the owner) is one of the authors. They are worth every penny!

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Id suggest hunters made better sharpshooters, given their years of civilian accuracy practice. With that background they might go hunting out of habit. The need for food in a provisioned army would fave a lot to say of how often they needed to go hunting

They aren’t “sniper” rifles per se.

@@CivilWarDigitalDigest Well yeah i see that.