tomh
Corporal
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Gettysburg, PA
Ordnance request
M E Wolf,
Very informative, thanks for posting that. I found the small arms cartridges request especially interesting. Early war ordnance requests occasionaly show some things that did not exist later in the war.
2 million cal .58 and 2 million cal .57 cartridges - by the end of 62 the federals eliminated the .57 cal and called them all .58
same with the 1 million cal .69 and 500K cal .71 - the .71 cal was dropped and .69 cal bullets covered the .69/.70/.71 cal weapons
100K sharps rifle and 50K sharps carbine - two different size cartridges based on charge only, carried over from the 1840's doctrine. Later, one cartridge would be used for both.
50K each Smith, Sharps, Merrill and Jocelyn - within a year the Sharps would race ahead of the carbine family and outnumber all the others by a substantial margin in later ordnance requests.
That document gives a great summary of how the Army of VA was armed. More than 13 .57/.58 requests for each .54 cal and less than 2 to 1 .57/.58 over .69.
Thanks,
TomH
M E Wolf,
Very informative, thanks for posting that. I found the small arms cartridges request especially interesting. Early war ordnance requests occasionaly show some things that did not exist later in the war.
2 million cal .58 and 2 million cal .57 cartridges - by the end of 62 the federals eliminated the .57 cal and called them all .58
same with the 1 million cal .69 and 500K cal .71 - the .71 cal was dropped and .69 cal bullets covered the .69/.70/.71 cal weapons
100K sharps rifle and 50K sharps carbine - two different size cartridges based on charge only, carried over from the 1840's doctrine. Later, one cartridge would be used for both.
50K each Smith, Sharps, Merrill and Jocelyn - within a year the Sharps would race ahead of the carbine family and outnumber all the others by a substantial margin in later ordnance requests.
That document gives a great summary of how the Army of VA was armed. More than 13 .57/.58 requests for each .54 cal and less than 2 to 1 .57/.58 over .69.
Thanks,
TomH