American military shoulder arms

VOLUME 1: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War.

VOLUME 2: New data surrounding the procurement and modifications of arms produced by the national armories, and under federal contract procured by the individual states and by individual members of militias, is presented here for the first time. This information, interwoven with military, political, economic, and social factors, results in new and better definitions and a clearer understanding of the arms' historical context. Though this work focuses on military flintlock shoulder arms, details on the federal government's procurement of arms for Indians during rapidly changing military policies of the period is also included. American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

VOLUME 3: This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be considered fully interchangeable. And thanks to the invention of the expanding bullet, rifled arms could be used by an army's entire infantry. For the first time, line infantry were equipped with arms capable of rapid reloading and of consistently hitting a man-sized target at distances as great as three hundred yards. Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms, this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.--Amazon.com.

Reprint. Originally published: 1993. Pbk. copy of v.3 printed in 2012.

Small arms procurement actions of the U.S. Congress in 1794 -- Federal period import arms -- 1792 U.S. contract Army rifle -- Model 1795 musket, Springfield armory -- Model 1795 Springfield musket, fixed bayonet alteration -- Model 1795 Springfield musket, 1813 Springfield armory alteration -- Model 1795 musket, Harpers Ferry armory -- Armory and arsenal repaired/rebuilt model 1795 muskets -- Model 1812 musket, Springfield armory -- U.S. Navy muskets -- 1794 U.S. contract muskets -- 1798 U.S. contract muskets -- 1808 U.S. contract muskets -- 1812 U.S. contract muskets -- State-owned, militia, and other military muskets -- State-procured and militia military rifles -- Militia musketoons -- Naval blunderbusses and swivel guns -- Model 1803 Harpers Ferry rifle -- 1807 U.S. contract Army rifles -- Model 1807 Springfield Indian carbine -- U.S. contract arms for the Indians

Model 1814 U.S. contract rifle -- Model 1816 musket -- Model 1817 artillary/cadet musket -- Model 1817 U.S. contract rifle -- Jennings multi-charge rifle -- Hall 1817 U.S. contrat breechloading rifle -- Model 1830 cadet musket -- Jenks muzzleloading rifle -- Jenks breechloading musketoon -- Model 1840 musket -- Appe…