00:01 - My name is Art Mallette.

00:02 - I'm with 44th Georgia Company C.

00:05 - I'm going to show you right here

00:06 - how an average Civil War soldier

00:08 - used his tool to do maintenance

00:10 - upon his weapon.

00:13 - This tool was a standard issue

00:15 - tool to strip -- field strip his

00:19 - 1861 Springfield.

00:22 - Which was union made.

00:23 - Could be picked up often in

00:25 - there.

00:25 - A lot of confederate soldiers

00:27 - prized it because it had the

00:28 - shiny metal on it.

00:31 - With this tool we bring the

00:34 - hammer back to half cock.

00:36 - You'd remove the spent cap.

00:38 - This end here fits on the nipple

00:41 - and you just remove it with

00:44 - that.

00:44 - You loosen it up a little bit

00:47 - and unscrew it.

00:55 - And the nipple comes off for

00:57 - cleaning.

00:58 - Second is this is called a

00:59 - bolster screw

01:01 - This allows -- was later, put in

01:02 - later models of the weapon to

01:04 - allow soldiers to clean out the

01:06 - flash channel.

01:06 - There's a channel that runs

01:08 - through here into the barrel to

01:10 - ignite the powder that's seated

01:11 - at the base of the barrel.

01:13 - They had a problem with it

01:14 - fouling up, so what they did was

01:16 - they put this small screw here

01:18 - called a bolster screw - or a

01:20 - clean out screw - you take your

01:24 - little screwdriver there and you

01:27 - remove it.

01:28 - If I can get it off.

01:33 - Maybe a little too tight to do

01:34 - it with its flat.

01:47 - There we go.

01:49 - Because it had to be in there

01:50 - tight if that comes off your

01:52 - deep doo-doo.

01:56 - You remove the bolster screw -

01:59 - very tiny, little screw - you

02:01 - don't want to lose that.

02:02 - This allows us to clean out into

02:04 - the flash channel there.

02:07 - Next thing this tool does is it

02:08 - removes these two screws here.

02:12 - What you would do is you loosen

02:13 - these up.

02:20 - And undo them by hand.

02:25 - You don't remove them.

02:29 - You loosen them up.

02:34 - This is called a lock plate.

02:37 - This lock plate is the basic of

02:40 - what makes it function.

02:42 - You have your mainspring which

02:45 - is here.

02:47 - You have the little cam that it

02:50 - sits against.

02:51 - This rides against the trigger.

02:54 - This is your sear spring.

02:56 - This is called the sear.

02:57 - This big piece on the outside

02:59 - here is the bridle.

03:00 - There's a little bitty thing in

03:01 - there called a stirrup.

03:03 - Kind of fancy names, but as you

03:05 - can see - if I move the hammer -

03:08 - you can see part of it move down

03:10 - in here.

03:12 - It will pull it up to that one

03:16 - piece there.

03:17 - That's at the firing position.

03:18 - When you pull the trigger, it's

03:20 - against here and the hammer

03:22 - drops down.

03:24 - This puts the tension here.

03:26 - This spring puts the tension on

03:28 - the trigger.

03:30 - So again, it will come up into

03:31 - the safety - you watched the

03:33 - little sear go into the first

03:34 - little notch - and it drops in

03:37 - there.

03:38 - That's a safety.

03:39 - You can't move it.

03:41 - Alright.

03:41 - He would clean out all this

03:42 - stuff.

03:43 - He would lubricate it with a

03:44 - little bit of oil if he had it.

03:46 - Check all your little screws.

03:47 - Make sure all your little screws

03:49 - are tightened up.

03:50 - And you're good to go with that.

03:53 - These little things here are

03:54 - called barrel bands.

03:56 - You would remove those.

03:58 - Slide off like that.

04:00 - Just with a little barrel band

04:02 - spring.

04:03 - These are the little bitty

04:05 - springs there.

04:06 - I'd have to take the strap off

04:07 - in order to do that.

04:09 - To clean the barrel, he has his

04:11 - ramrod.

04:13 - The ramrod has a threaded end on

04:15 - it.

04:16 - Instruments like a brush or a

04:19 - patch device can be put on the

04:23 - end there, and this end would go

04:26 - in all the way to the base.

04:29 - Brush out his barrel.

04:32 - Clean it out.

04:33 - They generally used hot water to

04:34 - clean out the barrels.

04:37 - You just brush it out real good,

04:39 - run a little bit of hot water

04:40 - through it, run a patch or two

04:42 - through it, and it's pretty

04:43 - clean.

04:45 - Stays general in maintenance.

04:47 - Goes together just as easy.

04:50 - You can find our little bitty

04:51 - bolster screw.

04:53 - We can put that in.

04:55 - Right in here.

04:59 - Get that threaded in there.

05:09 - Get that in the slot here.

05:15 - That's got to be in there tight.

05:18 - This item gets threaded in once

05:20 - it's cleaned.

05:27 - This is basic for most all Civil

05:30 - War rifles that are long arms.

05:33 - A long arm is designated by

05:36 - three bands.

05:37 - Your cavalry and such carried

05:40 - two banded muskets that are a

05:42 - lot shorter.

05:43 - Infantry carried long arm.

05:46 - Long arm - whether it's

05:47 - Springfield or Enfield - pretty

05:50 - much the same way it comes apart

05:51 - and goes together.

05:53 - This goes back into here.

05:58 - Seats with your trigger.

06:02 - These go into place in here.

06:05 - Tighten them in by hand.

06:25 - Most of these are a very

06:26 - accurate measurement, so that

06:28 - they don't catch or go extend

06:31 - too far through the faceplate on

06:34 - the other side.

06:37 - Ramrod goes back in the slot.

06:44 - And it's ready to go.

06:46 - All the way back.

06:47 - Back down.

06:48 - Good to go.

06:50 - All done with one little tool.