HISTORIC CAPTURED AND CARVED CONFED. RICHMOND RIFLED-MUSKET AND BAYONET TAKEN AT FORT FISHER.

HISTORIC CAPTURED AND CARVED CONFED. RICHMOND RIFLED-MUSKET AND BAYONET TAKEN AT FORT FISHER. A marvelous identified and captured Confed. musket-probably the best I’ve ever encountered. The musket is a mid-war production Richmond Rifled Musket that is undeniably authentic and complete in every way. This Richmond musket has a 40” rnd bbl in .58 cal, measuring 55 ½” overall. Iron lock plate marked: “C.S/Richmond, Va.” and dated “1863” behind the hammer. The musket has the correct brass butt plate and nose cap and retains its orig rear sight and ramrod-so often missing or replaced. The walnut stock is correct for this model and has the distinctive Richmond pattern “cut” inside the lock plate mortise. On the left side of the musket’s rear stock is the bold incised carving “TAKEN AT FORT FISHER, JANUARY 15, 1865”. Additionally, on the stock’s face opposite the lock plate is the captor’s name “W. REID” carved in the same hand. Some research needs to be complete among the rosters of the Union forces in this critical battle to determine the unit and service of the Confed. musket’s captor. Collins & Co. manufactured its accompanying bayonet and is surcharged “U.S.” surmounting the numeral “25”. Fort Fisher, known as the Gibraltar of the South was a critical part of the Confederacy’s defenses-protecting the South’s last major seaport Wilmington, NC. The Christmas Day attack in 1864 by a joint army/navy Union force on Fort Fisher fizzled when Gen. Benjamin F. Butler pulled out his troops, and returned to Hampton Roads, Va. Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant wrote that he would “be back again with an increased force and without the former commander”. The new commander assigned to the task was Gen. Alfred H. Terry, one of Butler’s former division commanders, and the increased force arrived composed of 8,000 men in three white divisions and one African-American division. Located at the end of a long peninsula, Fort Fisher was a massive L-shaped earthwork that stretched 682 yards across the neck of land and another 1,898 yards down the beach. Armed with 44 heavy cannon to protect the approaches to the Cape Fear River and 125 other cannon to be used in its defense, and manned by 1,500 soldiers, the Fort was a formidable target. Terry and Porter devised a plan of attack, and on Jan. 13, 1865, under cover-fire from Porter’s 44 ships, Terry’s men went ashore and established a beachhead five miles north of the Fort. Terry set his African-American troops to work building and manning a strong line of works across the peninsula to hold off any Confed. threat to his rear. Terry scouted the land face of the fort and decided to make his attack there. To aid in the attack, Porter recruited 2,000 sailor and marine volunteers to storm the Fort from the ocean side simultaneously with the army’s assault. Confed. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, planner and builder of the fort, was unsuccessful in his efforts to get reinforcements and returned to Fort Fisher on the morning of the 13th. All day and night on the 13th and 14th of Jan, the navy continued it ceaseless attack preparing the way for an assault by Union Inf., sailors, and marines. At 2:30 P.M. on Jan. 15, 1865, the great ship-borne guns suddenly fell silent, signaling the Union soldiers to attack. The Rebels rushed to defend the parapets with rifles and whatever artillery was still serviceable. The Yankee sailors and marines were repulsed in their attack on the Fort’s northeast face, but on the other end of the land face, Union troops gained a footing and progressed from one gun emplacement to another in vicious hand-to-hand fighting. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, who had spent almost two years planning and building the great fort was mortally wounded. One by one, each traverse on the land face fell to the attackers, and the outnumbered defenders falling back and regrouping to contest every inch. Col. Lamb fought valiantly to save Fort Fisher only to be severely wounded himself. Once the northern wall of the fort had fallen, the rest of the bastion was doomed. The Confed. forces continued the struggle down the beach, finally surrendering at around 10:00 P.M. that night. A marvelous, complete and orig Confed. Richmond rifled-musket and bayonet further enhanced by its historic and orig carving and its relationship to one of the last heroic struggles of the Confederacy. CONDITION: All of the iron furniture has a pleasing brown uncleaned patina. Some old tool marks are visible here and there and the stock has traces of old varnish. Carving appears authentic and of the period. Musket is in good, solid condition complete with sights, sling swivels and orig ramrod with the expected wear from battlefield use. Bayonet has a gray patina and is in fine condition. 4-58268 CW30 (12,000-15,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2006

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	824	$21,850.00	HISTORIC CAPTURED AND CARVED CONFED. RICHMOND RIFLED-MUSKET AND BAYONET TAKEN AT FORT FISHER. A marvelous identified and captured Confed. musket-probably the best I’ve ever encountered. The musket is a mid-war production Richmond Rifled Musket that is undeniably authentic and complete in every way. This Richmond musket has a 40” rnd bbl in .58 cal, measuring 55 ½” overall. Iron lock plate marked: “C.S/Richmond, Va.” and dated “1863” behind the hammer. The musket has the correct brass butt plate and nose cap and retains its orig rear sight and ramrod-so often missing or replaced. The walnut stock is correct for this model and has the distinctive Richmond pattern “cut” inside the lock plate mortise. On the left side of the musket’s rear stock is the bold incised carving “TAKEN AT FORT FISHER, JANUARY 15, 1865”. Additionally, on the stock’s face opposite the lock plate is the captor’s name “W. REID” carved in the same hand. Some research needs to be complete among the rosters of the Union forces in this critical battle to determine the unit and service of the Confed. musket’s captor. Collins & Co. manufactured its accompanying bayonet and is surcharged “U.S.” surmounting the numeral “25”. Fort Fisher, known as the Gibraltar of the South was a critical part of the Confederacy’s defenses-protecting the South’s last major seaport Wilmington, NC. The Christmas Day attack in 1864 by a joint army/navy Union force on Fort Fisher fizzled when Gen. Benjamin F. Butler pulled out his troops, and returned to Hampton Roads, Va. Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant wrote that he would “be back again with an increased force and without the former commander”. The new commander assigned to the task was Gen. Alfred H. Terry, one of Butler’s former division commanders, and the increased force arrived composed of 8,000 men in three white divisions and one African-American division. Located at the end of a long peninsula, Fort Fisher was a massive L-shaped earthwork that stretched 682 yards across the neck of land and another 1,898 yards down the beach. Armed with 44 heavy cannon to protect the approaches to the Cape Fear River and 125 other cannon to be used in its defense, and manned by 1,500 soldiers, the Fort was a formidable target. Terry and Porter devised a plan of attack, and on Jan. 13, 1865, under cover-fire from Porter’s 44 ships, Terry’s men went ashore and established a beachhead five miles north of the Fort. Terry set his African-American troops to work building and manning a strong line of works across the peninsula to hold off any Confed. threat to his rear. Terry scouted the land face of the fort and decided to make his attack there. To aid in the attack, Porter recruited 2,000 sailor and marine volunteers to storm the Fort from the ocean side simultaneously with the army’s assault. Confed. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, planner and builder of the fort, was unsuccessful in his efforts to get reinforcements and returned to Fort Fisher on the morning of the 13th. All day and night on the 13th and 14th of Jan, the navy continued it ceaseless attack preparing the way for an assault by Union Inf., sailors, and marines. At 2:30 P.M. on Jan. 15, 1865, the great ship-borne guns suddenly fell silent, signaling the Union soldiers to attack. The Rebels rushed to defend the parapets with rifles and whatever artillery was still serviceable. The Yankee sailors and marines were repulsed in their attack on the Fort’s northeast face, but on the other end of the land face, Union troops gained a footing and progressed from one gun emplacement to another in vicious hand-to-hand fighting. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, who had spent almost two years planning and building the great fort was mortally wounded. One by one, each traverse on the land face fell to the attackers, and the outnumbered defenders falling back and regrouping to contest every inch. Col. Lamb fought valiantly to save Fort Fisher only to be severely wounded himself. Once the northern wall of the fort had fallen, the rest of the bastion was doomed. The Confed. forces continued the struggle down the beach, finally surrendering at around 10:00 P.M. that night. A marvelous, complete and orig Confed. Richmond rifled-musket and bayonet further enhanced by its historic and orig carving and its relationship to one of the last heroic struggles of the Confederacy. CONDITION: All of the iron furniture has a pleasing brown uncleaned patina. Some old tool marks are visible here and there and the stock has traces of old varnish. Carving appears authentic and of the period. Musket is in good, solid condition complete with sights, sling swivels and orig ramrod with the expected wear from battlefield use. Bayonet has a gray patina and is in fine condition. 4-58268 CW30 (12,000-15,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2006 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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