A good example of the regulation socket bayonet used on the .58 Caliber US Springfield and contractor-made rifle muskets throughout the war, along with its scabbard. The bayonet is smooth metal, with good edge and point, the locking ring in place and movable, all a steel gray in color with some scattered thin darker gray or thin brown age spots. Please see our photos.

This comes with its original, regulation scabbard- the black leather body fitting the triangular blade, with the brass scabbard tip and the wide belt loop for the infantry waistbelt both in place. The leather is solid and firm though showing losses to the finish on the body from wear and on the belt loop from wear and flexing, the latter showing brown at the wear spots, but with intact seams and a visible maker’s mark on the loop of Crossman & Co. of Newark, NJ, who had substantial wartime contracts for leather gear, including for 15,000 sets of infantry gear 1864-65, which fits the construction of the scabbard, the final pattern, using rivets to close the belt loop, to attach it to the collar around the mouth of the scabbard and also to secure the collar to the scabbard, all in addition to the standard stitching.

This is a good, complete example of key piece of infantry gear. Infantry may not have crossed bayonets in combat often during the Civil War, but they remained standard issue until the very end.   [sr] [ph:L]

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