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The most common small arm at Gettysburg was the .58 caliber Springfield rifle musket model 1861. Many Confederates carried the .577 caliber Enfield rifled Musket. Several units carried the .69 caliber smoothbore. Cavalry were armed with .54 caliber Sharps carbines and a few lucky units under George Amstrong Custer were carrying the .52 caliber Spencer repeating carbine.
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Use the word musket in a sentence?
The musket was used by foot soldiers in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
What weapons were used in the battle of festubert?
musket, cannons
What were the type of bullets used in the Civil War?
Musket balls.
Which country invented the musket?
The Chinese are credited with the invention of the musket. The musket was a later form of a weapon known as the hand cannon.
Who used the musket?
If your referring to the "muzzle loading" musket/rifle; the US Army's last offical use of that weapon was the US Civil War. In 1866 the US Army adapted the metallic cartridge 50-70 single shot rifle. Then in 1873, the US Army got rid of the 50-70 and adapted the 45-70 Government cartridge. Both sides used the musket/rifle in the Civil War. A muzzle loading musket could be either smooth bore or rifled. However, generally speaking, whenever a man used the term "musket", it was usually presumed to be a smooth bored weapon.
