Sharpshooting Rifles of the American Civil War

Colt, Sharps, Spencer, and Whitworth

AvMartin Pegler

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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At the outset of the American Civil War, the Union Army's sharpshooters were initially equipped with the M1855 Colt revolving rifle, but it was prone to malfunction.Instead, the North’s sharpshooters preferred the Sharps rifle, an innovative breech-loading weapon capable of firing up to ten shots per minute – more than three times the rate of fire offered by the standard-issue Springfield .58-caliber rifled musket. Other Union sharpshooters were equipped with the standard-issue Springfield rifled musket or the .56-56-caliber Spencer Repeating Rifle.Conversely, the Confederacy favoured the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket for its sharpshooters and also imported from Britain the Whitworth Rifle, a .45-caliber, single-shot, muzzle-loading weapon distinguished by its use of a twisted hexagonal barrel.Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this is the engrossing story of the innovative rifles that saw combat in the hands of sharpshooters on both sides during the Civil War.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-24
Mått:178 x 244 x 6 mm
Vikt:298 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Weapon
Antal sidor:80
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustratör:Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland, Johnny (Illustrator) Shumate, Alan (B.E.V. illustrator) Gilliland
ISBN:9781472815910

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Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. He is the author of a number of books including the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004).Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani and Édouard Detaille.Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of The Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards. He now writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com).