Two Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle-Muskets.
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It is highly possible that this P53 Enfield #1121 was transported from England to Savannah Georgia in 1861 in the Fingal.
SS Fingal (1861), [d] (CSS Atlanta ironclad 1862–63). An iron merchant screw-steamer of 462 tons built by J & G Thomson at Govan, Scotland, 1861. Sold to John Low for the Confederate States Navy. Fingal was the last blockade runner to enter Savannah, GA, November 1861, with a large cargo of Enfield rifles, cannon and military supplies. After two unsuccessful attempts to break out of the blockade, she was converted into the ironclad CSS Atlanta (1862–1863). On its second sortie she was outdueled by two Union monitors, captured and put into service on the James River as the ironclad USS Atlanta.
For they that are interested---- there is more about the Blockade Runners during the Civil War in this link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_runners_of_the_American_Civil_War
SS Fingal (1861), [d] (CSS Atlanta ironclad 1862–63). An iron merchant screw-steamer of 462 tons built by J & G Thomson at Govan, Scotland, 1861. Sold to John Low for the Confederate States Navy. Fingal was the last blockade runner to enter Savannah, GA, November 1861, with a large cargo of Enfield rifles, cannon and military supplies. After two unsuccessful attempts to break out of the blockade, she was converted into the ironclad CSS Atlanta (1862–1863). On its second sortie she was outdueled by two Union monitors, captured and put into service on the James River as the ironclad USS Atlanta.
For they that are interested---- there is more about the Blockade Runners during the Civil War in this link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_runners_of_the_American_Civil_War
