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Alfred Jenks & Son Model 1861 Percussion Rifle-Musket
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Loaned Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian accession # A1980.0399.0893: C SA154
With the outbreak of war in 1861, the War Department quickly realized that the government arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts would be unable to meet the demands of rapidly-growning armies. This muzzle-loader is but one of tens of thousands produced by twenty-one Northern manufacturers who received contracts to produce military longarms patterned on the Springfield Model 1861 Rifle-Musket. More than 98,000 Bridesburg- and Philadelphia-marked muskets were produced by Alfred Jenks & Son between 1861 and 1865.