Cook & Brother Rifle Percussion 24" .58

On 1855 Ferdinand W.C and Francis Cook, both emigrated from England when young, founded their engineering company in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the beginning of the Civil War the Cook brothers started their guns manufacturing business but war events obliging to move their manufacturing activity to Athens, Georgia. The gun production in New Orleans was limited to about thousand rifles and carbines, while another seven thousand, including also some carbines for the cavalry, were manufactured in Athens. Our reproduction gun features the brass garnitures; the barrel is blued and lock case hardened. The stock is made of walnut.