Gentlemen, when the above cited article was written, there was yet to be done any serious investigation into the types and quality of imported arms that found their ways into Confederate forces. Now we know that the Enfield rifles sold to both the North and South at this time were not the same quality as those issued to and carried by Her Majesty's forces. In 1967, anyone who came across a three-bander Enfield was sure it saw Confederate service, even it it had been imported from India. sure, the North wound up with junky European surplus, but they were surplussed from those countries, not made for export like the Enfields. Southerners also relied on civilian weapons more than the North.