Welcome to lately’s Picture of the Day! By way of 1860, John Parker Lindsay discovered that he may design a muzzle-loading rifle that required just one cause pull but nonetheless fired two pictures in fast succession. Someway, the USA Military discovered the formidable prototype interesting all the way through the Civil Struggle. In December of 1863, a deal was once struck between the Military and Lindsay to shop for 1,000 of his particular “Two-Shot” muskets at $25 each and every. They arrived in August subsequent 12 months and got to the sixteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry for battlefield checking out. Preliminary examinations at West Level had proven this two-barrel machine would paintings acceptably as it was once seen how the primary shot is helping blank a bore for the second. Then again, the brutal realities of conflict uncovered deadly inadequacies. Squaddies established that those weapons steadily double-fired their triggers inflicting each barrels to be discharged simply as soon as therefore defeating their function as dual shot chambers. Extra severely then again is that the ignition tube on entrance barrel fouled up speedy after one hearth thus making it needless for firing the second one bullet. The modern design was once merely no longer as unswerving as anticipated. But a couple of thousand general Lindsay Two-Shot muskets had been produced and issued to a couple different Michigan and New Hampshire regiments too with an instance being regimental quantity 46 written above; maximum went unused even though owing to quite a lot of causes. Then again, army government didn’t consider carefully sooner than losing them from their listing of long run procurements.
“Roughly 1,000 of those two shot rifle-muskets had been manufactured by means of J.P. Lindsay of New York in 1863-1864. They’re identified to were examined by means of or been issued to the fifth, sixteenth, and twenty third Michigan and ninth New Hampshire. The ninth examined “the brand new double-shooting rifles” on 8 November 1864 and located that they “…confirmed off their demerits to excellent benefit, flashed, fizzled, and failed famously; sufficient to protected their condemnation and a fast change to the Springfield rifle.” Then again, apparently the sixteenth Michigan carried the rifles for a minimum of a short while all the way through the Petersburg marketing campaign. This rifle is featured on pages 404 and 406 of “American Army Shoulder Palms, Quantity III” by means of George Moller. Two rotated script “ADK” (Andrew D. King) inspection cartouches are at the left inventory flat. A “GDM” assortment mark is on the toe. Features a US socket bayonet and leather-based sling. Provenance: The George Moller Assortment”
Lot 3178: Documented U.S. Lindsay “Two Shot” 1863 Double Rifle-Musket – Documented Civil Struggle U.S. Lindsay “Two Shot” Style 1863 Double Percussion Rifle-Musket with Bayonet. (n.d.-v). Rock Island Public sale Corporate. {photograph}. Retrieved Might 23, 2024, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/83/3178/documented-us-lindsay-two-shot-1863-double-riflemusket.
