Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This .54 caliber breech-loading carbine was designed in the 1850s by Ambrose E. Burnside who became a Major General in the Civil War. It fired cartridges with copper or foil casings. The Union purchased over 55,000 of them for use by cavalry.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- patentee
- Burnside, Ambrose E.
- maker
- Burnside Rifle Company
- date made
- ca 1863
- Measurements
- overall, carbine: 39 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 100.33 cm x 5.715 cm
- Object Name
- carbine
- carbine, percussion
- Other Terms
- carbine; Firearms; P :; .54 In; Rifled; 09; 03
