Product Details
BURNSIDE RIFLE COMPANY, USA,
A GOOD .54 CAPPING BREECH-LOADING '5TH MODEL' CARBINE, serial no 11782,
with 21in. rifled barrel fitted with pinched blade front-sight and leaf battle sights to 500 yards, the barrel stamped "CAST STEEL" (faint) the action body fitted with a side rib and ring and stamped "BURNSIDE PATENT / MODEL OF 1864", (faint) breech block and action body stamped with the serial number 11,782, back action lock stamped in two lines "BURNSIDE RIFLE CO / PROVIDENCE / R.I." two piece iron mounted walnut stock, with half fore-end with sping retailed barrel band, the butt with iron crescent style butt-plate, and stamped with two clear inspecting officers cartouches on the wrist. A good specimen with some finish and better than most
Provenance: The inventor was Ambrose E. Burnside who also became a famous Civil War general. The Burnside was the third most widely used carbine issued to Union cavalry during the Civil War from 1861 on the government purchased over 50,000. Carbines of this type saw extensive use by northern cavalry and captured Burnsides were widely used by the confederates. It is believed the following Confederate cavalry were armed or partially armed with them ;- 2nd N.C. 8th Tx, 6th, 7th, 11th, 2th, Va.
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Estimate £800-1,000