Since the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Army has depended on sidearms ... This list includes flintlock pistols from the earliest days of American independence to modern-day semi-automatics.

Wickham of Philadelphia had made this smoothbore musket in 1822, and it was an obsolete flintlock. By the time of the Civil War, muskets were usually rifled and were caplock percussion guns.

1630 - The first true flintlock. The flintlock solved ... 1854-56 - The Crimean War. The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns. 1859 - The first full rim-fire cartridge. 1860 - Spencer repeating ...

X-rays of the flintlock didn’t tell us a lot. The pistol is heavily encrusted good, a testament to what happens after lying 300 years in the ocean.” Conservation of the weapon may reveal a ...