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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Confederacy--an Answer to the Charleston Mercury. (search)
d musket, brought over by himself, and a United States rifled musket made at Harper's Ferry, he made a report to the Commissioners, containing numerous valuable suggestions, which, with the approbation of Mr. Adams, were adopted. The result was, a musket conforming in its interior to the United States musket, and in its exterior to the Enfield musket, with some changes for the better from both. By permission of those in authority, the model musket was made at the Government works at Springfield, by Mr. Adams, who arrived in Richmond with the arm a few days since, and on Tuesday last exhibited it to the Senate and House Committee on Military Affairs, who were highly pleased with it as a weapon of offence and defence. We saw the musket ourselves, and regard it in all respects as the most perfect weapon of the kind in existence. To show the extreme sensitiveness of our Northern neighbors, we may mention a fact that we gleaned at the time — viz: that after the musket was made, by