Civil War Contract Model 1861

[Bill Murphy]

Your gun seems to be of somewhat high condition. We would like to see some more pictures of your gun so we can see what the condition really is. We should be more interested in Miller conversions and Triplett and Scott guns. Maybe we will suggest a separate forum for those guns and a database for serial numbers, since we have no records to access.

[John Davis]

I believe the 1863 govt. order for 15,000 of these Rebel killers was filled. In 1865, post war, Charles Parker was awarded a second government contract to convert 5000 of the muzzle loaders to breech-loaders using the Miller brothers' patent. You have a very nice example of the unaltered muzzle-loader.