69 cal

[jr baker]

A friend been doing alot of research on the 12th Tennessee cavalry csa which I had several ancestry that fight in he found there supplies list and it say 69 cal musket would that been the 1842 springfield or the belgian musket just trying to figure it out thanks

 

[johan_steele]

A friend been doing alot of research on the 12th Tennessee cavalry csa which I had several ancestry that fight in he found there supplies list and it say 69 cal musket would that been the 1842 springfield or the belgian musket just trying to figure it out thanks

Likely either an M1842 or percussion conversion M1816/22. Normally the bright Belgian and French arms were notated as such usually…

 

[RSMorris]

A friend been doing alot of research on the 12th Tennessee cavalry csa which I had several ancestry that fight in he found there supplies list and it say 69 cal musket would that been the 1842 springfield or the belgian musket just trying to figure it out thanks

Here is a pic of my M1816/1822 percussion conversion. made in 1838 by Lemuel Pomeroy

 

[jr baker]

Wow gorgeous musket I would imagine it be the 1816/1822 conversion

 

[RSMorris]

Wow gorgeous musket I would imagine it be the 1816/1822 conversion

Thank you, it has a tremendous amount of erosion around the nipple area.