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Why did the effective use of the rifled musket in the US Civil War require extra training?
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∙ 6y ago
The effective use of the rifle musket in the US Civil War required special training. The increased range of the weapon of 500 yards was much longer than the smooth bore muskets, and to maximize this increased distance soldiers needed training to accurately gauge distance and make use of the sighting mechanism.
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∙ 6y agoIn addition to the very good answer below, soldiers required training in reloading with speed. The very short range of smoothbore arms permitted only one volley of fire- at which point a charging enemy would be so close as to be met with bayonets. However, when ranges increased to several hundred yards, skilled infantrymen could fire, reload, and fire a second, third, or even fourth volley on a charging enemy. Rapid reloading required training and practice.
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What is the difference between a smooth-bore musket and a rifled musket?
The difference between the two muskets lies inside the barrel. A smooth-bore barrel is (as the name suggests) smooth inside. As the ball that the gun fires is slightly smaller than the barrel it bounces from side to side as it travels down its length. This causes the possibility that the ball will not exit the barrel traveling straight leading to inaccuracy. A rifled barrel has a groove carved around the inside in a spiral. This catches hold of the ball as it travels down the barrel, holding it on a straight course, and causing it to spin. As it exits the barrel, it is traveling straight and the spin helps to keep it so. In short, a rifled musket is more accurate than a smooth-bore musket and has a longer range.
What is a light flintlock musket called?
A flintlock firearm uses a springloaded hammer with a flint attached to strike against a hinged steel plate in order to shower sparks into a shallow pan filled with a small amount of black powder in order to ignite (shoot) a weapon. They were originally invented in Germany in the middle 1600's and were the standard military weapon (musket) from that time until about 1830 when they were replaced by the percussion Cap system. The flintlock musket is the weapon prominent in the American Revolution and the Napoloenic Wars. Usually loaded through the muzzle with tha aid of a ramrod, a slow and cumbersome process.
Weapons used in the Battle of Antietam?
Typical weapons used during the Civil War included knives and swords, muskets, breech loaders, and field guns. More modern advances were also seen in battle, such as grenades and machine guns.
What supplies did Civil war soldiers have?
A typical Civil War soldier was issued a kit containing a blanket, a cup and bowl, a uniform, and a few other essentials. Most soldiers brought other items from home including musical instruments, gloves, socks, etc. Most soldiers were issued rifled muskets and power and shot for 60 rounds. One thing most soldiers did not have was training. Basic training often consisted of telling the men what orders meant and instructing them how to march. They generally didn't receive much (if any) practice firing and reloading the musket or any instruction in how to build a foxhole or deal with the situations of battle. Confederate soldiers received less and less of the standard kit as the war went on.
When was the rifle first used in warfare?
Rifles were first used in warfare on a significant scale in the American Revolutionary War, when the Ferguson rifle was issued to a special corps of riflemen raised in 1777 from light infantry companies of the British army in the colonies. By the Napoleonic wars (1803 to 1815), the rifle became more widespread, with the British Army raising special regiments of riflemen and issuing riles to the light companies of regular infantry regiments. Other armies adopted the rifle as well, either in similar specialized units or issued to chosen marksmen in regular infantry units. By the 1850s, the rifle (specifically the muzzle-loading "rifled musket") displaced the smoothbore musket as the standard infantry weapon. This was the standard weapon on both sides of the American Civil War.
How the musket different from the rifle?
the musket does not have a rifled barrel and a rifle does
Who invented the rifled musket?
The rifled musket was invented and sold to the US Army in 1861. The rifle ball was invented by French inventor Claude-Ã?tienne Minie.
What guns did the British use in 1857?
The Enfield rifled musket.
How far can a civil war musket shoot?
The 69 smoothbore had a maximum effective range of about 100 yards (more or less). The rifled 58 Springfield musket had an effective range of 300 yards against men or 600 yards against larger targets like a man on a horse.
What did the rifled musket do?
It made accurate long range fire possible.
Who was famous for their marksmanship with a rifled musket?
Davy Crockett. Anny Oakley
How far can a civil war rifle musket shoot?
The 69 smoothbore had a maximum effective range of about 100 yards (more or less). The rifled 58 Springfield musket had an effective range of 300 yards against men or 600 yards against larger targets like a man on a horse.
What does the rifled musket do?
It improves that accuracy and distance of the bullet by causing the bullet to spin not tumble like a smooth bore barrel musket.
How do you clean a civil way rifled musket?
I don't know how to clean a musket I just need to know how people in the confederacy cleaned their muskets
What are the weapons in order used in the civil war From Greatest to least?
1. Parrot 2. Mortar 3. Napoleon 4. Small mortar 5. Breech loading rifle 6. Sniper Rifled musket 7. Rifled musket 8. Smooth bore musket 9. Pistol 10. saber/Sword 11. Bayonet 12. Knife
What is a rifle musket?
A rifle musket is a musket that has a rifled barrel. Until the mid 19th century, the standard infantry weapon of most of the world's armies was a smoothbore, long-barreled, muzzleloading musket with a relatively large bore. Rifles, with shorter barrels and smaller bores were also in use, but primarily by specialized troops. With the invention of the Minie style bullet, which allowed much faster loading than the traditional patched ball, the more accurate rifling started to replace a smooth bore as the standard for infantry use. Initially, existing smooth bore muskets were converted to "rifled-muskets". The term meaning a musket that had been rifled. In the mid 1850s new musket designs such as the British Pattern 1853 (Enfield) and the US Model 1855 (Springfield) became the standard. These weapons, which were originally designed with rifled barrels, were called "Rifle Muskets" or "Rifle-Muskets" to distinguish them from the shorter barreled rifles.
What new technology new to the civil war made it possible for bullets to travel faster and further?
The rifled musket and Minié ball.
