Sporting arms. Kentucky rifle alterd under Confederate contract. On
January 11, 1862 (36 years of age at that time) he was paid by C.S. Arsenal at Nashville the
sum of $ 510 for "Repairing 102 Rifles, Rebored, Stockes, and Locks". The guns were rebored
to .54 caliber so that they could use ammunition for U.S. Model 1841 rifles.
Shortly after delivery and very likely just fefore the Union army captured Nashville, these
modified Kentucky rifels were shipped to the C.S. Armory at Holly Springs, Mississippi.
There (it is said between March and June 1962) they received its final alteration by cutting
down the last three inches of the octagonal barrel were milled down to round and were
fitted with a small stud at the
top of the barrel so it could be fitted with a U.S. Model 1816 socket bayonet. The S. S. Armory
at Holly Springs cessed being operational by July 1962 and its machinery were transfered to
the C.S. Arsenal in Atlanta.
It seems that only three of these 102 guns had survived.
Picture of the milled down barrel
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