Hmm. I'm a novie when it comes to guns, rifles, muskets, but just few comments to start things off. This gun was obviously converted over to percussion from flintlock in it's working life. The way the hammer folds over the barrel to strike the 'nipple' is very similar to French, Dutch and German patterns post-1840. These types of muskets were heavily imported into the U.S. for the Civil War on both sides and then we have this interesting marking of 'CS'? 'Confederate States' or am I just being whimsical?
