PATTERN ENFIELD 1856 CARBINE

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                 1856 Pattern Enfield Cavalry Carbine

Non replicando i marchi inglesi di accettazione , lo si dovrebbe considerare una copia  di arma esportata  in america ai tempi della guerra civile NORD/SUD come di seguito copiato e incollato da fonte attuale USA ,che non sto a tradurre.

 PESO KG. 2,700

Lunghezza Totale  mm1035   CANNA LISCIA   mm630       CAL. 577 circa  mm.14,3

bancato a ST.ETIENNE  corredato di certificato cartaceo.                                      

This is a wonderful and complete example of the scarce Pattern 1856 “Enfield” Cavalry Carbine as imported during the American Civil War. The P-1856 Cavalry Carbine is a rarely encountered Civil War era long arm, and even those carbines without Confederate import marks bring significant prices. While the US Government records indicate that only 250 of the P-1856 carbines were purchased, the Confederacy purchased approximately 10,000 of the guns. This seems like a significant number, but it is quite low when compared to the fact that most researchers put the total of all English long arms imported by the Confederacy at somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000. Even by the most lenient standards, that puts the importation of P-1856 carbines at well under 5% of all Enfield pattern arms obtained by the Confederacy. Their absolute paucity on the collectors market underscores that fact that these guns saw hard use during the war and were clearly used up in the field. Extant examples of commercial (non-British military) P-1856 carbines tend to appear in two conditions: heavily used & very worn, or nearly mint guns from captured Confederate Blockade Runners. In either case, the guns are very scarce and are rarely found available for sale. One reason for their lack of survival comes from the Report of William H. H. Terrell, Adjutant General for the State of Indiana. The report dated December 1865 concerning the Seventh Indiana Cavalry states in part "On the 21st of December (1864) the Seventh Cavalry moved from Memphis with a cavalry expedition under General Grierson. On the 28th Forrest's dismounted camp at Vernon, Mississippi, was surprised and captured, and a large quantity of rebel stores destroyed, including sixteen railroad cars, loaded with pontoons for Hood's army, and four thousand new English carbines." This clearly indicates on clear reason for the scarcity of these guns, when the Federal troops found them, they destroyed them. Since nearly all US cavalry were armed with some form of breech oading carbine, a muzzle-loading carbine was of no real value. However, US troops regularly used captured CS imported Enfield rifle muskets, as they were of use to the infantry. The Pattern 1856 Cavalry carbine was primarily a late war purchase and import by the Confederacy. To date, only a small number of P-1856 carbine invoices have been located that are dated prior to 1863, all of which were purchased through S. Isaac, Campbell & Co. However, in 1863 and 1864 a number of the guns were purchased by the Confederacy. Somewhere between 2,500 and 5,000 were purchased from Sinclair-Hamilton & Co, and it is possible that more were acquired from this preferred provider of arms to the Confederacy. The “Payne Papers” ledger clearly documents the arrival of ten different shipments of  P-1856 cavalry carbines at the Port of Wilmington, NC. These guns arrived between July of 1863 and November of 1864, and the shipments totaled 4,700 guns. Additional imports were transshipped from Havana Cuba into Texas between November of 1864 and April of 1865. Between 2,500 and 5,000 of the Pattern 1856 carbines entered the Confederacy via this route during the last months of the war. All documented Confederate purchased P-1856 carbines have locks that are marked Barnett, EP Bond or TOWER. The Bond marked carbines have strong provenance to having been part of the final shipments that entered the Confederacy through Texas. While a handful of JS/Anchor and Anchor/S marked Confederate carbines are known, it appears that many were probably unmarked, as the entire system of marking import arms became more and more lax as the war drug on. It is also reasonable to assume that as least some P-1856 carbines were purchased by Confederate speculators for sale in the South, and these guns would not have had any type of Confederate importation marks. 

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