A well-turned-out corporal of Company A, 14th U.S. Regular Infantry poses with his tape-primer- powered Model 1855 rifle musket. Such muskets manufactured from 1859 to 1861 also had a patch box inlet into the butt to hold cleaning supplies. (Courtesy of Rick Carlile)

A well-turned-out corporal of Company A, 14th U.S. Regular Infantry poses with his tape-primer-powered Model 1855 rifle musket. Such muskets manufactured from 1859 to 1861 also had a patch box inlet into the butt to hold cleaning supplies. (Courtesy of Rick Carlile)

Courtesy of Rick Carlile