CSPAN3 American Artifacts September 6, 2014
This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. Exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, will many factored firearms. Well l many of manufactured firearms. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. Hand did on the other not have the industrial might that the north had. The new england and the Connecticut River valley was the home of dozens of gun manufacturers. So many wereld, needed by the union army that 33 different manufacturers were turning up the id...