We got our equipments today. Our guns are the old-fashioned
muskets made by working over the old flintlock gun, so as to use a cap in place
of the flint. The musket is loaded with a cartridge containing powder, ball,
and three buckshot in front of the ball. Each man is to carry forty rounds or
more of ammunition all the time.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 15
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