Please Direct My Research!

[Singing Welder]

I have bought a Burnside carbine with some great documentation, I have muster rolls, pension application, and I am the 4th owner of this collection which includes his sword as well. I am interested in finding when his unit was issued Burnsides (if indeed this wasn't purchased as surplus after the war). I'm also wondering if any records repository would be interested in having the serial number related to this particular soldier. Any suggestions about what to do with the information I have or how to get more information would make this journey even better. Thanks in advance

 

[rob63]

Any suggestions about what to do with the information I have or how to get more information would make this journey even better.

Gather the information you have now and post it in this thread, include photos, additional information will naturally follow.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

I am an Ohio collector, and I've tended to notice Ohio related items as they make their slow circle around the collecting community, and all the Burnside Carbines I've seen that went to Ohio units (from serial number lists) show only the unit for the carbine and not the name of the soldier - is your identification to a particular soldier based on serial number records?

 

[UCVRelics]

I have bought a Burnside carbine with some great documentation, I have muster rolls, pension application, and I am the 4th owner of this collection which includes his sword as well. I am interested in finding when his unit was issued Burnsides (if indeed this wasn't purchased as surplus after the war). I'm also wondering if any records repository would be interested in having the serial number related to this particular soldier. Any suggestions about what to do with the information I have or how to get more information would make this journey even better. Thanks in advance

We would love to see photos of the Burnside as well as serial# and the other items in the collection.

 

[JOHN42768]

By all means post some photos of your treasure

 

[James N.]

Welcome to the forums from the host of the Stonewall Jackson Forum and another owner of a Burnside carbine!

 

[Singing Welder]

I am an Ohio collector, and I've tended to notice Ohio related items as they make their slow circle around the collecting community, and all the Burnside Carbines I've seen that went to Ohio units (from serial number lists) show only the unit for the carbine and not the name of the soldier - is your identification to a particular soldier based on serial number records?

No, until 5 years ago this was a family piece. The second owner inherited it when he was seven and that began a collecting career that lasted into his 90's.

 

[limberbox]

Doesn't happen to be the Third Iowa Cav, does it? They received theirs in mid-April 1864 at Jefferson Barracks after their return from Veteran reenlistment furlough.

Since you know the unit, one place to look would be any regimental history or memoirs, or even those of other regiments of the same brigade.

 

[limberbox]

If an Illinois regiment, Ken Baumann's Arming the Suckers, 1861-1865 lists arms by quarter as reported in the Quarterly Ordnance Stores reports, along with the occasional memoir or regimental history mention.

Otherwise access to the Quarterly Ordnance Stores reports usually requires purchase from NARA.

 

[Singing Welder]

Doesn't happen to be the Third Iowa Cav, does it? They received theirs in mid-April 1864 at Jefferson Barracks after their return from Veteran reenlistment furlough.

Since you know the unit, one place to look would be any regimental history or memoirs, or even those of other regiments of the same brigade.

132nd New York spent their time in South Carolina near New Berne

 

[Singing Welder]

If an Illinois regiment, Ken Baumann's Arming the Suckers, 1861-1865 lists arms by quarter as reported in the Quarterly Ordnance Stores reports, along with the occasional memoir or regimental history mention.

Otherwise access to the Quarterly Ordnance Stores reports usually requires purchase from NARA.

What is NARA?

 

[UCVRelics]

What is NARA?

National Archives.

 

[Singing Welder]

National Archives.

Thanks! Heading off on an online adventure

 

[RobertH]

I am an Ohio collector, and I've tended to notice Ohio related items as they make their slow circle around the collecting community, and all the Burnside Carbines I've seen that went to Ohio units (from serial number lists) show only the unit for the carbine and not the name of the soldier - is your identification to a particular soldier based on serial number records?

I've got an M1841 Harpers Ferry with "OHIO" on the stock - 1852 date on the lock. If I get ambitious this weekend, maybe I'll try to take a few photos and start a thread on it. I'd be interested in any available history you might know about Ohio marking their weapons like this.

 

[UCVRelics]

I've got an M1841 Harpers Ferry with "OHIO" on the stock - 1852 date on the lock. If I get ambitious this weekend, maybe I'll try to take a few photos and start a thread on it. I'd be interested in any available history you might know about Ohio marking their weapons like this.

Would love to see them. We have had some VERY good threads on the Ohio marked muskets.

 

[limberbox]

132d NY would be unusual for cavalry weapons, though perhaps the color guard had some? Or did the soldier perhaps purchase it as surplus at war's end (see the separate thread on soldiers taking weapons home or buying surplus weapons at war's end).

Todd, American Military Equipage, vol. II, State Forces, shows the 132d NY (aka 2d Regt Empire Brigade) as an infantry regiment armed with "French Vincennes rifle, sword bayonet, cal. .69" in 1862-63 and with M1863 rifle muskets in 1864.

The highest numbered NY vol. cav. regiment listed is the 26th.

 

[Story]

No, until 5 years ago this was a family piece. The second owner inherited it when he was seven and that began a collecting career that lasted into his 90's.

I have bought a Burnside carbine with some great documentation, I have muster rolls, pension application, and I am the 4th owner of this collection which includes his sword as well.

I would suggest confirming all of the documentation yourself. "Trust but Verify".

For instance, I've run across soldiers who served one enlistment in an Infantry unit and a second in a mounted unit.

Mustered in: October 4,1862 Mustered out: June 29, 1865
https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/132ndInf/132ndInfMain.htm