My New Spencer

[Seduzal]

Welcome to CWT from the Smoky Mountain side of North Carolina. Thanks you for your service.

 

[UCVRelics]

Thanks for the feedback guys here are the other pictures...

Thanks for adding the photos "Absolutely Fantastic" Condition not only low serial # but low miles as well. The reason I ask for the photo of the load lever in the down position is you can get a very sense of how much it was used by the wear as well as the bore of the weapon. Have you put a bore light in the barrel yet?

 

[UCVRelics]

@The_Number_X if you will pm your address I will send you a Spencer round to go with your Spencer. This way people will know what kind of round it fired. It won't cost you a dime just consider it a Christmas present from CivilWarTalk and the Weapons & Ammo forum. I dug 100's of them in Gen Wilson's winter camp at Gravelly Springs Al.

 

[richard]

For some time now, I have been researching Col John Wilder and found out some interesting things about the Spencers.
It seems that the story about the men having to buy their Spencers has some faults as it is being told. When the Spencers were ordered by the government the company was in the process trying to make 10,000 of them. But somehow the first
1600 of them were delivered to the Army of the Cumberland and to Wilder. After the war, many of the Spencers that had been the early ones were sold to the men for $3.50 each. These were the Spencers that had seen a lot of rough service. A lot of the Spencers that were used by the Cavalry had broken or worn-out stocks due to having been resting on the saddle.

 

[chucksr]

For some time now, I have been researching Col John Wilder and found out some interesting things about the Spencers.
It seems that the story about the men having to buy their Spencers has some faults as it is being told. When the Spencers were ordered by the government the company was in the process trying to make 10,000 of them. But somehow the first
1600 of them were delivered to the Army of the Cumberland and to Wilder. After the war, many of the Spencers that had been the early ones were sold to the men for $3.50 each. These were the Spencers that had seen a lot of rough service. A lot of the Spencers that were used by the Cavalry had broken or worn-out stocks due to having been resting on the saddle.

I was under the impression that Wilder's men used the Spencer "rifle", even tho they were mounted infantry, not the "carbine" and that Wilder chose to buy the rifles himself until the Feds stepped up and paid for them. I also believe that these were the first of the Spencer rifles that were issued during the conflict.

 

[UCVRelics]

Here is mine. I acquired it years ago from an older lady in Centreville Alabama. She told me that according to Granpappy it was left behind by the yankees when they raided his farm. It's missing the hammer and the saddle bar and ring but I only paid $100 for it and the story. Before Wilson left on his raid into Alabama & Georgia he wanted all his men armed with Spencer's. He even had to leave troops behind who did not have Spencer's.