Confederate musket items

[RSMorris]

Let's say a Confederate soldier is assigned a M1816 Smoothbore Percussion Musket. What items would he also have been given in support of that musket?

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

In theory; a ball puller, wiper, and cone wrench/screw driver. At a company level mainspring vises would be issued.

 

[RSMorris]

By cone are you referring to the nipple?

 

[RSMorris]

Would a Confederate soldier ever have been expected to roll his own cartridges?

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

By cone are you referring to the nipple?

Yes, the period manual term is "cone".

"take cap from the pouch, place it upon the cone..." - Infantry Tactics, or Rules for the Excercise and Manoeuvres of the United States Infantry, 1857.

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

Would a Confederate soldier ever have been expected to roll his own cartridges?

There are some surviving accounts and anecdotes of soldiers casting their own rounds, and presumably rolling them into cartridges, but that was a rather uncommon event, especially for soldiers armed with arms of uniform martial calibers.

 

[RSMorris]

So would they have also been given a cap pouch and cartridge box for my purposes... 69 caliber?

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

So would they have also been given a cap pouch and cartridge box for my purposes... 69 caliber?

Yes. As well as a waist belt and bayonet scabbard. Theoretically a gun sling would have been issued as well.

 

[DixieRifles]

Yes, the period manual term is "cone".

I learned something new. I may start using the term "cone". It gets embarrassing to say "Check to see if your Nipple is clogged" when I'm in mixed company.

 

[Craig L Barry]

I learned something new. I may start using the term "cone". It gets embarrassing to say "Check to see if your Nipple is clogged" when I'm in mixed company.

Technically, the "cone" is the period term for the entire part. The "nipple" is the part of the cone where the percussion cap is placed, above the squared off portion which is called the "shoulder."

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

By cone are you referring to the nipple?

"Cone" means "nipple"
This might be an example of extreme modesty of the period to not use a word that could refer to a body part, eh?

 

[RSMorris]

Were the soldiers issued any type of manual for their muskets?

 

[johan_steele]

Were the soldiers issued any type of manual for their muskets?

No. A bayonet, cap pouch to hold percussion caps, cartridge box to hold pre made cartridges, a worm to put on the ramrod and maybe a musket tool. Sometimes a sling.

 

[RSMorris]

A musket tool, would that have been say a screwdriver and cone remover as one unit? Seems that is all it would take to dissasemble a musket, mine anyway.

 

[RSMorris]

Would this have been the type of cartridge box carried? Don't know if this box is Union or Confederate or neither?

Sorry forgot to post the pic

 

[Story]

Frequently seen in reports of enemy arms captured,
"Stand Of Arms" - a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayonet, cartridge box and belt; frequently, the musket and bayonet alone.

See also https://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-is-a-stand-of-arms.84395/

 

[Story]

Would this have been the type of cartridge box carried? Don't know if this box is Union or Confederate or neither?

For a Confederate, you might as well flip a coin - they used captured Federal equipment.

 

[RSMorris]

For a Confederate, you might as well flip a coin - they used captured Federal equipment.

I had forgot to install the pics there are up now.... I have since found this type of box was used for carbines.

 

[RSMorris]

Or would this be the more appropriate type of cartridge box

 

[RSMorris]

I have found this musket tool. It is for an 1863 Springfield but I assume it would work for my 1822/28?