Business enterprises massachusetts springfield directories periodicals, springfield. Model 1863 riflemusket, manufactured at the springfield armory in springfield, massachusetts circa 1864. Springfield city directory and business advertiser. And a few have a central portal for many of the newspapers that have been digitized. This musket could have belonged to any one of them. Encyclopedia of massachusetts, biographical genealogical. The m186163 is representative of the everymans rifle during the war.
The state of massachusetts bought spencer rifles, which were issued to the 37th massachusetts infantry as the regiment passed through washington in the summer of 1864, and to a sharpshooter. The metal has a smooth lightly cleaned attractive steel patina. If you have an 1863 or 1864 springfield musket that would be improved. The m1863 is representative of the everymans rifle during the war.
Massachusetts is one of the states who do not have a central online repository for searching historical newspapers. I have an 1864 springfield with 1866 trap door conversion. Springfield, west springfield, chicopee and longmeadow directory. This state page of our website provides direct links to free major genealogy databases and historical titles and information found on massachusetts genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web. The musket still has crisp action and a strong main spring and lots of original rifling. In searching massachusetts and new york records, we discovered that during the civil war era, havey was a fairly common name there. Massachusetts genealogy free massachusetts genealogy. I was hoping someone coukd give me some insite to the weapon and whats its value is.
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