A Nation Asunder

Civil War displays include a vast collection of domestic firearms manufactured both north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and firearms imported by both sides. A recreated federal arms factory can also be viewed here.

Significant Firearms in Gallery 6:

• Numerous Confederate Pieces including a copy of a Sharps breechloading carbine, Richmond rifle-musket Type II and 1795/1808 conversion of Virginia Manufactory of Arms musket
• LeMat Revolver Similar to that used by Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart
• Relic Enfield Musket found in a Virginia bog
• Sharps Carbine captured from a Massachusetts soldier by a Virginia cavalryman and retaken at the Battle of Rappahannock Station, Virginia on November 7, 1863
• Colt Model 1860 Revolver lost by Colonel John Singleton Mosby's men during a raid on Fairfax, Virginia
• Smith & Wesson No. 1 Revolver used by a member of the First New York Dragoons during the tidewater Virginia campaign
• Spencer Carbine lost by a member of the 19th New York Cavalry near Dahlgren, Virginia
• Confederate copy of Sharps Carbine
• "John Brown" Sharps Carbine