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 Francis
E. Brownell
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Brownell’s Model 1855 U.S. percussion rifle
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Francis E. Brownell was issued this Model 1855 U.S. percussion
rifle as a corporal in Company A, 11th New York Infantry,
commonly called Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves. It was
with this .58 caliber rifle that Brownell shot and killed
Ellsworth’s assailant, James W. Jackson. |
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History of Technology, Armed Forces History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Bequest of Francis Brownell
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