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The Fayetteville Rifle was a 2 banded rifled musket of rifle length produced at the Confederate States Arsenal in Fayetteville North Carolina. The machinery which produced these weapons was primarily that captured at the United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia which was previously used to produce the US Model 1855 Rifle. The weapon was produced in .58 caliber from early in 1862 until the capture and destruction of the arsenal by Union forces under General W. T.
