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Artifacts,merican the second part of our visit to the National Firearms museum. We join the exam director in the civil war gallery. We are entering the civil war galleries of the National Firearms museum. On my left represents the union and on my left, the confederacy. We see numerous examples of the carbines the union was using. This was a time of rapid advance in firearms design. This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. One of the events that initiated the c...

This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. One of the events that initiated the civil war. This exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, well manufactured firearms. Though are ready to go to work. In the back, you see a barrel rifling, used by smith and wesson from the civil war clear up to the time of world war ii. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil...