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Burnside Rifle Co.

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Burnside Rifle Co.		Providence	Rhode Island	1861	1865/1867

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Product
see also Bristol Firearms Co., Burnside, A.E. and Foster, George Pratt Four distinct rifled were used extensively in the Civil War. The first and part of the second model was manufactured by Bristol Fireamrs Co. Burnside Firearms Co. produced the reminder of the second models and all third and fourth models. Productions ceased in 1865. right-side 2nd Model Carbines .54 caliber percussion, 21" round barres, total production by Bristol and Burnside was about 1500 between 1861 and 1862. 3rd Model Carbines .54 caliber percussion, slight modification of the hammer and a forend with a barrel band, production started in 1862, production was about 2000 right-side 4th Model Carbines / rifles .54 caliber or .58 caliber (rifle) percussion, production started in 1863. Improvement of the 2nd and 3rd model which permets simpler loading. The difference to the 3rd Model was ahinged breech to allow simpler loading of the Burnside cartridge, production was so about 7000 and ended in 1864 right-side 5th Model Carbines production started in 1863, improvement (G. R. Bacon patent) of the 4th model by a screw-pin in the right side of the frame. This screw forced the breech to operation in the correct order. 43940 carbines of the 5th Model had been delivered to the Ordnance Department. Production and Purchases of Ordnance Depatment. No or very little commercial production. Perhaps only rejected arms of the Ordnance department. 1861 = totally 1060 carbines 1862 = totally 4224 carbines 1863 = totally 20995 carbines 1864 = totally 21001 carbines 1865 = totally 3800 carbines In 1867 the company name changed to Rhode Island Locomotive Works.

Product

see also Bristol Firearms Co., Burnside, A.E. and Foster, George Pratt

Four distinct rifled were used extensively in the Civil War.
The first and part of the second model was manufactured by Bristol Fireamrs Co.

Burnside Firearms Co. produced the reminder of the second models and all third and fourth models. Productions ceased in 1865.

right-side

2nd Model Carbines
.54 caliber percussion, 21" round barres, total production by Bristol and Burnside was about 1500 between 1861 and 1862.

3rd Model Carbines
.54 caliber percussion, slight modification of the hammer and a forend with a barrel band, production started in 1862, production was about 2000

right-side

4th Model Carbines / rifles
.54 caliber or .58 caliber (rifle) percussion, production started in 1863. Improvement of the 2nd and 3rd model which permets simpler loading. The difference to the 3rd Model was ahinged breech to allow simpler loading of the Burnside cartridge, production was so about 7000 and ended in 1864

right-side

5th Model Carbines
production started in 1863, improvement (G. R. Bacon patent) of the 4th model by a screw-pin in the right side of the frame. This screw forced the breech to operation in the correct order. 43940 carbines of the 5th Model had been delivered to the Ordnance Department.

Production and Purchases of Ordnance Depatment. No or very little commercial production. Perhaps only rejected arms of the Ordnance department.

1861 = totally 1060 carbines
1862 = totally 4224 carbines
1863 = totally 20995 carbines
1864 = totally 21001 carbines
1865 = totally 3800 carbines

In 1867 the company name changed to Rhode Island Locomotive Works.