The Weapons Of The American Civil War | Guns: The Evolution of Firearms | Documentary Central
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- From the North to the South the firearms that won the Civil War.
The history of guns from invention to the present day. Shows the major developments in the evolution of the gun, what made certain weapons so ground-breaking and notable battlefield actions and feats involving particular weapons.
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Excellent material - thank You for uploading! :)
I’m not really into history, the civil war or old guns, but this was fascinating and well done. I really enjoyed it! Thank you!
At Gettysburg Buford's Calvary of 2000 men held off a division of 6000 men. Buford's soldiers had breech loading Carbines which mean they could they could reload faster and stay on the ground without being exposed to enemy fire. The Confederates still had muskets. It was estimated that a skilled Calvary man with a carbine could get off 3 shoots to every one by a musket.
We need to be specific here carbine just means a short barreled gun. I assume you mean breechloaders. The Sharps rifle could manage up to 10 rounds a minute quick-firing, the Spencer - my favorite - 20. Put together they made about 200,000 govt. purchased examples and are the two most common breech-loaders of the war. 6 is quite slow for a civil war era breechloader, the obsolete Hall breech-loaders that had rusted in the armouries for decades by the start of the war could manage that or more.
The Confederates had muskets - rifle-muskets - because the infantry would never be issued a carbine. If they would have breech-loaders they would be the rifle variants.
Dude, really good.
Wouldn’t take me 10 minutes to load that revolver, if I’m doing it casually maybe 5 minutes is longest, but 2 minutes for a single self rammed round? To be a good soldier you would need to be able to fire and load 3 shots a minute with a rifle. I bet if you’re quick and skilled you could load that pistol in 60-90 seconds
Yeah these people have never shot blackpowder percussion revolvers.
And with paper cartridges, which anyone in the civil war would have been using, you can do it even faster.
To any new black powder enthusiasts: the pietta hawkins is actually a 1860s Illinois infantry rifle!
Infantry rifle? It's an old rifle design by that time that was definitely not being issued, definitely not military... old hunting rifle.
@@SStupendousSo True
My ancestor was issued the Austrian 1854 Lorenz the night before the Battle of Shiloh. The next day he fought against the confederates at the Hornet's Nest. I think that should be worthy of note to historians, because this is probably the rifle that caused that distinct zipping hornet sound downrange, which the rebels complained about.
Also a famously hated and poor gun by most accounts from those who used them, likely do to their bullet (American calibers did not fit and the gun would be inaccurate.)
@@SStupendous So by that logic, if I tried to fire a 7.62 from a 30.06 M1...and since it wouldn't work, that automatically makes the M1 a bad rifle?
@@ancienttartan3509 Um, no. Obviously not. I'm not saying the rifle itself was bad. It was despised widely in the war through for the reasons I just gave, which should be blamed on logistics more than the gun at all. Maybe I should have made it clearer, when I said "It was a poor gun" - according to soldiers. I can see where what I said would read out that way, so my bad. Though, It was unremarkable though in the world of minié rifles.
@@SStupendous I have never read anywhere about soldiers not liking the Lorenz, or that there was an ammo shortage for it. However, I have heard those complaints about the 1849 Geribaldi....which is also Austrian, and looks extremely similar. The trigger guard looks different, and the caliber is I believe .71.
@@ancienttartan3509 This makes me think perhaps I confused the two, but I very specifically remember the Lorenz .54 being disliked for the ammo reason. I recall reading at least two accounts and a report of the gun being essentially useless and inaccurate due to being given ammunition that was infunctional with the rifle.
It's notability in the war tells me though this was not completely the case though, clearly.
This is a pretty good documentary and I was really enjoying it until they said it takes 10 minutes to load a cap and ball revolver. Is that for someone who's never done it in their entire life, including the time to read the instructions? LOL😂
Yeah, there's no way. I've never used a cap and ball revolver, but having shot muzzleloader Kentucky Rifles, I'd be shocked if it took me more than 5 minutes my first time using it.
It is plausible. Many people carry “pre-loaded cylinders on their belt. The old black powder 45 we had was slow to load. First, you had to cap the cylinders so the powder wouldn’t fall out. Then the wad is rammed in. Then the ball itself is slightly oversized so when rammed in, some is shaved off to make a tight seal. Then lastly lard is applied to the cylinder to prevent accidental ignition of the other chambers. This might not be the right way, but that is how we did it..
@@joshuabartley8300 You mean how you did it during the Civil War? I am just being humorous.
Depends a colt walker would take like 5 minutes but a colt patterson yeah roughly 10 minutes
@@joshuabartley8300Men did not carry extra cylinders. None of the manufactures made extra cylinders for their guns and no boxes for them where issued.
Have you seen the [officers] with the new…Colt model of 1851, belt held, revolvers?
They should give me belt/pocket held models, were often mismarketed as privateer, pirates.
Im dressed like a [dock worker] right now. Youd like to see whos to blame for the Secret Service with such merciful weapons, dont ya?
I want to play War of right. 😏
almost 100 years after the 2nd Amendment was ratified, even these are pretty advanced weapons. To not be updated is ridiculous, nobody deserves a pushbutton to kill other people.
No not really, I would advise not trying to apply modern politics to damn near 150 year old history its just retarded.
And the first amendment was never intended for Radio, TV and the Internet. The 6th Amendment was not written so people could hire 1500 dollar an hour defense lawyers to get them off when they are guilty. Because the path you go down when you start limiting the rights set by the Constitution. By the way, it is not a button it is a trigger and it still has to be pulled.
There is a method for updating the constitution literally written into it but anti-gunners don't have the votes. You could buy a private war ship at the time.
Yeah. Scales, too.... the Spencer company produced enough of their rifles to give every single soldier in both armeis during the Revolution 90 years earlier a Spencer, and still have multiple tens of thousands to spare. Or the M1861/63 springfield rifle-musket, over 1,200,000 produced... enough to give each man in the Revolution on all sides 13 rifles each.