{"id":8285,"date":"2019-11-22T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/civil-war-smith-carbine-and-its-rubber-cartridges\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:30:28","slug":"civil-war-smith-carbine-and-its-rubber-cartridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/civil-war-smith-carbine-and-its-rubber-cartridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Smith Carbine and its Rubber Cartridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AFBupJVhrHk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Lot 1187 in the upcoming RIA December 2019 Premier auction.<\/p>\n<p>The US military experimented with a wide variety of breechloading carbines during the Civil War. One of these that got a bit of a head start on the others was the Smith carbine, patented in 1855-57 by Gilbert Smith, a physician from New York. He contracted with Poultny &#038; Trimble of Baltimore &#8211; a major arms and military accoutrements dealer &#8211; to market the gun, and he received his first military order in February of 1860. That first order was on for 300 guns, but it meant that the design was a known quantity to the military when war broke out. Throughout the war a series on contracts were written for a few thousand Smith carbines as a time, with final deliveries made in June 1865 and a total of just over 31,000 delivered to the military. Prices steadily dropped form $35 per gun before the war to just $23.50 by the final contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Smith was a break action design using a cartridge made of India rubber. It was a capping breechloader, meaning that ignition was provided by a traditional primer on the side of the action, and not through a primer integral to the cartridge. This rubber system was a reliable obturator, and the Smith received generally positive reviews from cavalry units that used it in combat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/ https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction This is Lot 1187 in the upcoming RIA December 2019 Premier auction. The US military experimented with a wide variety of breechloading carbines during the Civil War. One of these that got a bit of a head start on the others was the Smith carbine, patented in 1855-57 by Gilbert Smith, a physician&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/civil-war-smith-carbine-and-its-rubber-cartridges\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Civil War Smith Carbine and its Rubber Cartridges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13281,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/13281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}