Model 1843 Hall-North .52 caliber, breechloading percussion carbine, aka Side Lever Hall. Top of flat receiver is clearly stamped with the five-line address --U.S / S. NORTH / MIDLTN / CONN. / 1849-. Carbine has a 21” round barrel with two barrel bands that secure it to the walnut stock.All metal surfaces are age brown patina. Stock shows wear and handling dings from wartime service. No cartouches visible. Weapon retains its original button-head ramrod as well as the 8” long sling bar (with ring) mounted to left side.In 1861 the Union Defense League, a consortium of J.P. Morgan, Simon Stevens, and A.M. Eastman, purchased obsolete smoothbore Hall carbines out of U.S. arsenal stocks for $3.50 apiece. The guns were then immediately rifled at a nominal cost, so as not to be obsolete, and were immediately sold back to the U.S. government, via Major General John Fremont at St. Louis, for $22.00 each. Get Rich Quick in action.A very solid, collectible Hall carbine probably used in Fremonts Department of the West during the Civil War. 100% original, 100% complete, and mechanically perfect.

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