Round Ball to Rimfire Part I

1997
by Dean S. Thomas

Civil War bullets, cartridges, and balls
Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 157747015X
Publisher : Thomas Pub

About Round Ball to Rimfire Part I

Round Ball to Rimfire: A History of Civil War Small Arms Ammunition is a multi-volume encyclopedia of Civil War bullets and cartridges by Dean S. Thomas, published by Thomas Publications of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Part One, released in 1997, opened the series with the bullets, balls and cartridges used in the war, laying the groundwork for the detailed volumes that followed. Thomas had earlier written Ready, Aim, Fire! Small Arms Ammunition in the Battle of Gettysburg (1993), a shorter study of the ammunition used by both armies at Gettysburg.

The series continued with Part Two (2002) covers Federal breechloading carbines and rifles in 528 pages, Part Three (2003) covers Federal pistols and revolvers and closes the Northern side of the story with miscellaneous essays, and Part Four (2010) begins the Confederate volumes with the history of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau. Each volume documents the patents, designers and manufacturers behind the arms and their ammunition, illustrated with large numbers of specimen photographs. For relic hunters, collectors and Civil War historians, the set is a detailed guide to identifying excavated bullets and cartridges.

Key Facts

1993: Thomas publishes Ready, Aim, Fire! on Gettysburg small arms ammunition
1997: Part One published
June 2002: Part Two, Federal Breechloading Carbines and Rifles, published
2003: Part Three, Federal Pistols, Revolvers and Miscellaneous Essays, published
October 2010: Part Four, first of the Confederate volumes, published

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