Warman's Civil War Weapons

johan_steele · #1 10-28-2006, 04:47 PM

Warman's Civil War Weapons by Graham Smith. I picked this up today at a gun show where I was hunting for a little child's .22 to get my daughter started. After drooling on an original M1841 I saw it for $15 and took a quick peek... as $15 was a bit coser to my budget than the $2400 on the M1841 I made an easy decision.

This is an absolute must own for those interested in the arms of the Civil War. It is a concise and thouroghly illustrated work w/ color photographs of surviving examples. While many of the entries are not as detailed or as well illustrated as I might like with numerous minor but glaring errors and no index this is still a nice handy reference guide that will likely sit beside my copy of Edwards Civil War Guns & Reillly's US Military Small Arms 1816-1865.

Smith, Graham, Warman's Civil War Weapons, KP Books, 2005.

gary · #2 10-28-2006, 09:59 PM

Thank you Johan. I might pick up a copy too.

lrd89 · #3 10-29-2006, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by johan_steele

... as $15 was a bit coser to my budget than the $2400 on the M1841 I made an easy decision.
2005.

Yeah, that would be an easy decision for me too.

ole · #4 10-29-2006, 11:51 PM

So you can now proudly tell the Missus that you saved $2,385. What a hero! The equivalent of "Oh boy, I saved a bundle on all this stuff I bought. Look, honey!" (Hint: Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.)
Ole