Preface

The Federal Arsenals

Bartholow, Chadwick

Colt, Hazard, Johnston & Dow, Leet & Hall

D. C. Sage, other sources

Foreign Revolver Ammunition

Miscellaneous Pistol & Revolver Ammunition

Miscellaneous Essays

Billinghurst & Requa

Silas Crispin's Improvement

Dimick Rifles

Continental Arms

S. Gardiner's Silver Medal

Richard J. Gatling

Picket Bullets

.69 cal. Rifle Musketoon

Appendix One Additional Newspaper Accounts of the Bartholow/Jackson Explosion

Appendix Two Colt and Eley Patents

Appendix Three Unidentified ``Colt'' Cartridge Purchases

Appendix Four English Patent No. 149 of 1862, R. O. Doremus and B. L. Budd

Appendix Five English Patent No. 2059 of 1856, John Montagu Hayes; and Specifications for William MontStorm's Patent No. 33,611 --- October 29, 1861

Appendix Six .44 cal. Sage Waterproof Cartridges

Appendix Seven English Patent No. 2263 of 1859, William Edward Newton (a communication from Perrin and Delmas of Paris, France)

Appendix Eight English Patent No. 955 of 1854, John Henry Johnson

Appendix Nine Specifications for Ethan Allen's Patent No. 15,454 --- July 29, 1856

Appendix Ten Specifications for Daniel Moore's and David Williamson's Patents

Appendix Eleven Patent Specifications for Walter Hunt, Lewis Jennings, Horace Smith, Daniel B. Wesson, and Wm. Cleveland Hicks

Appendix Twelve Articles of Incorporation of the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company and the New Haven Arms Company

Appendix Thirteen English Patent No. 1764 of 1859, John Walch

Appendix Fourteen Bullets Purchased by the U. S. Ordnance Department

Appendix Fifteen Additional Bullet Making Machine Patents

Appendix Sixteen English Patent No. 3258 of 1865, Alfred Vincent Newton (a communication from Silas Crispin)

Appendix Seventeen Percussion Caps and Primers

Appendix Eighteen Patents for Percussion Cap Machinery

Notes

Bibliography

Index