A .54 CALIBRE JOSLYN FIRST MODEL 'MONKEY TAIL' 1855 RIFLED CAVALRY CARBINE, CIRCA 1855-6, PROBABLY CARRIED BY JOHN H. COONS OF THE 4TH OHIO CAVALRY BY L. H. WATERS & CO., MILBURY, MASS. of standard production specifications, fitted with folding back-sight, case-hardened lock, walnut three-quarter stock impressed 'JHC' on the right and 'JC' on the left, probably for John H, brass trigger-guard and butt-plate, and some original finish 57.1 cm; 22 ½ in barrel Flayderman estimates that one thousand five hundred carbines of this type were made with twelve hundred being sold to the United States. It was carried by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th Ohio Cavalry during the 1862 campaigns. Sold together with biographical notes on John H. Coons recorded as a private in the 4th Ohio Cavalry from 1861 until incapacitated in 1865, from official records of the federal and confederate armies.
A .54 CALIBRE JOSLYN FIRST MODEL 'MONKEY TAIL' 1855 RIFLED CAVALRY CARBINE, CIRCA 1855-6, PROBABLY CARRIED BY JOHN H. COONS OF THE 4TH OHIO CAVALRY BY L. H. WATERS & CO., MILBURY, MASS. of standard production specifications, fitted with folding back-sight, case-hardened lock, walnut three-quarter stock impressed 'JHC' on the right and 'JC' on the left, probably for John H, brass trigger-guard and butt-plate, and some original finish 57.1 cm; 22 ½ in barrel Flayderman estimates that one thousand five hundred carbines of this type were made with twelve hundred being sold to the United States. It was carried by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th Ohio Cavalry during the 1862 campaigns. Sold together with biographical notes on John H. Coons recorded as a private in the 4th Ohio Cavalry from 1861 until incapacitated in 1865, from official records of the federal and confederate armies.
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