Original U.S. Civil War Era German Percussion Converted Musket Half-Stocked for Civilian Use - dated 1830 Display Guns & Parts Sets a Civil War Hero who

a Civil War Hero who fought at Gettysburg and was feted by Congress and the Grand Army of the Republic as “the most popular and handsomest officer of the encampment

and so he stayed in the 82nd but no combat

BALACLAVA in October 1854 and at SEVASTOPOL in the winter of 1854

The grip is also covered in leather to match the scabbard

Original U.S. Civil War Era German Percussion Converted Musket Half-Stocked for Civilian Use - dated 1830 Display Guns & Parts Sets a Civil War Hero whoOriginal Item: Only One Available. We just received this lovely Antique Converted musket, along with about 200 other guns, from a collection that sat in an attic for close to 100 years. This was a German Military Musket made at Niese in 1830 as marked on the lock plate. Originally made as a flintlock, it was then converted to percussion and most likely shipped to the United States in time for the Civil War. Surplus flintlock muskets in Europe were