I am looking for information with regard to the weapons with which the 42nd Va. Inf. was armed in June-July 1861. I have two specific references to weapons and need clarification as to what weapons are being described. The regiment received its weapons while training at Lynchburg. The weapons were a mix of percussion and flintlock weapons.

Capt. William B. Rector's I/42Va [from Campbell Co.], known as the Campbell Guards, organized at Concord Depot, Campbell Co. Rector's company, when enlisted, "consisted of four officers and eighty enlisted men, and they were armed with Flintlock muskets of the vintage of 1818." [42Va: 8b]

Capt Samuel J. Mullins, A/42Va, from Henry county, noted in his diary that at Lynchburg that "it was not but a day or two [after 17 June] before we [A/42Va] received our Muskits which is a very good gun. It is the improved muskit made at Springfield in 1850."