This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

Brown Bess weighed 10 pounds was 60 inches long with a 42- or 46-inch smooth bore barrel and a walnut stock. Soldiers generally carried nine to 12 rounds in a belly cartridge box.

This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, ...