Ordnance
US Civil War, Spencer Carbine & Rifle Tool
Ordnance
US Civil War, Spencer Carbine & Rifle Tool
Item #63850 : Original period manufacture. 1863 pattern tool, modified post Civil War to a shorter form for use with the Spencer Carbine & Rifle. See page 92, Gun Tools: Their History and Identification by Shaffer, Rutledge and Dorsey, for an in depth description of this modification.