Need help identifying a musket barrel.

[WOLF257US]

I bought a musket barrel recently but I don't know exactly what it is.
I thought this would probably be the best place to ask.
The barrel is .58 cal and looks like a early Springfield with a clean-out screw in the bolster.
There aren't any markings left on the top side of the barrel, the date and VP surfaces are too deteriorated.
The only markings on the barrel are a script W on the bottom of the tang and L.E.H. and a P on the bottom of the barrel about 6 inches up from the breech end of the barrel.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Jim

 

[Jobe Holiday]

Sounds like one of the 1861 Contract barrels.
J.

 

[WOLF257US]

Thanks for the info.

 

[UCVRelics]

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[WOLF257US]

Should have done this to start with.

Jim

 

[WOLF257US]

Anybody know when they stopped putting the clean-out screw in the bolster? If this is indeed a contract rifle and dates from around 61, according to the list of contractors and delivery dates then that "W" on the tang might indicate W.W. Welch in Conn.
Purely speculation on my part as I haven't been able to identify those initials, which I assume belong to the inspector.
Oh well, just thinking out loud as it were.

Jim

 

[captaindrew]

Anybody know when they stopped putting the clean-out screw in the bolster? If this is indeed a contract rifle and dates from around 61, according to the list of contractors and delivery dates then that "W" on the tang might indicate W.W. Welch in Conn.
Purely speculation on my part as I haven't been able to identify those initials, which I assume belong to the inspector.
Oh well, just thinking out loud as it were.

Jim

The model 1863 redesigned the bolster without the cleanout screw

 

[Jobe Holiday]

The Model 1861 Rifle Musket, with clean-out screw, was delivered by contractors into 1865.
J.

 

[WOLF257US]

Thanks fellas, told you I'd ask annoying questions before it was over with.
I'll probably never identify this barrel except to say I have a real Civil War musket barrel and all things considered, I'll settle for that.

Thanks again.

Jim