On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:48:38 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
Gunner Asch quickly quoth:

Bob..many State Militia groups brought their own weapons, from
repeaters to Enfields.

While its indeed true that the Springfield was the Standard arm...

Bernies comments were more true about the Revolutionary war period
however...

I received copies of a dozen headlines in an email this morning. None
of us can figure out how these buffoons graduated high school and/or
college. Here's the text of a few relating to this thread offshoot:

1) Volunteers Search for Old Civil War Planes

2) Federal Agents Raid Gun Shop, Find Weapons


Eli Whitney was the father of "weapons interchangability"

One Atta Boy going his way!
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt