CSPAN3 American Artifacts September 14, 2014
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 war. The south on the other hand did not have the industrial might that the north had. As we talked...