I know this forum about the civil war, but I've been wondering about this for a while now.
So, I remember watching some old westerns from the 60s and earlier time periods, occasionally you'd see the cavalry either fighting off the Indians or just guarding their frontier forts and I thought I'd ask. I've seen westerns that portray the cavalry as using the Winchester lever action and others showing them only using the sharps carbine, does anyone know which rifle they historically used during the ten years after the civil war ended? I'm just curious, that's all.
So, I remember watching some old westerns from the 60s and earlier time periods, occasionally you'd see the cavalry either fighting off the Indians or just guarding their frontier forts and I thought I'd ask. I've seen westerns that portray the cavalry as using the Winchester lever action and others showing them only using the sharps carbine, does anyone know which rifle they historically used during the ten years after the civil war ended? I'm just curious, that's all.