Burnside Breechloading Carbines and Rifles: A Collectors Guide to The Firearms and Cartridges Invented by The Famous Civil War General, Ambrose E. Bur

by Edward Hull

Ambrose Everett Burnside made his mark in history as a famous battlefield commander during the American Civil War. Today, collectors of antique firearms better remember him for the handy cavalry carbine that he invented and had manufactured, a carbine that played a large part in arming Federal cavalrymen during that war. Getting the first 300 of those carbines fabricated drove Burnside into bankruptcy in 1857, and he then changed careers. The demand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519526075
• ISBN13: 9781519526076
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"