Masked Battery
- When a battery is so concealed or diguised, as to not been seen and recognized by the enemy, until it opens its fire.*
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Musket
- A musket is a smoothbore shoulder arm which fires a round lead ball. Smoothbore arms were standard issue in the U.S. Army until 1855, when they were replaced by a new model arm with a rifled bore. Although obsolete by the Civil War, many muskets were still in arsenal storage or in the hands of state militia units. In 1861, the average musket was 57 inches long, .69 caliber and weighed about 9 pounds.
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Muzzleloading
- The muzzleloading system requires both the gunpowder and projectile to be inserted into the arm through the muzzle or front end of the barrel. Muzzleloading weapons were the standard issue to soldiers worldwide prior to and during the American Civil War.
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definitions from "Military Dictionary", Col. H.L. Scott, 1861
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