Also, it was relatively easy to ram more than one load into a muzzle-loader by mistake.īecause of these glaring defects, most European armies had already adopted breechloading arms. As a result, soldiers would frequently fail to ram the bullet fully down on the powder, so that the weapon burst on firing. Wartime experience had shown that muzzle-loaders were becoming obsolete: it was difficult to load them in other than a standing position, and as they became fouled from repeated firing, it became increasingly difficult to ram a cartridge home. 58” caliber rifle muskets of the Springfield pattern, most of which were still serviceable.
At the end of the Civil War the US Government had on hand over one million single-shot, muzzle-loading.
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