Model 1864 Burnside Carbine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1863
name: label: patentee
content: Burnside, Ambrose E.
label: maker
content: Burnside Rifle Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This .54 caliber breech-loading carbine was designed in the 1850s by Ambrose E. Burnside who became a Major General in the Civil War. It fired cartridges with copper or foil casings. The Union purchased over 55,000 of them for use by cavalry.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.209405
label: catalog number
content: 209405
label: accession number
content: 37586
label: serial number
content: 17107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carbine
label: Object Name
content: carbine, percussion
label: Other Terms
content: carbine; Firearms; P :; .54 In; Rifled; 09; 03
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, carbine: 39 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 100.33 cm x 5.715 cm