The 2 boxes are suspended on a canvas belt, by pairs of brass belt loops. Each tube would have held a Morse cartridge. Consists of 2 cartridge boxes, about 11″ x 4″ each, each holding 12 tin tubes. No more than a handful of orig Morse cartridge box belts & cartridge boxes survive. The twenty-four cartridges were placed into the tubes on a bed of cotton. Two leather boxes, each containing twelve individually soldered tin tubes were mounted on a very coarse woven cartridge box belt. An example of his cartridge box and belt is shown here. Morse invented the carbine and the cartridge that it fired he also invented a cartridge box specifically made to carry the unique center fire cartridges. They could only use the unique self contained center fire cartridge that Morse had invented, so keeping them supplied with ammunition was a major problem. This relatively rapid firing carbine would have helped the Confederate cavalry to compete with the Spencer carbines issued to Northern cavalry, but the carbine had a downside. When the carbine was fired, the cartridge was extracted when opening the breech and another pre-charged cartridge was ready for insertion. His unique breech loading system used a cartridge of his own design that contained ball, powder and percussion cap in a single center fire cartridge, much like those in use today. George Morse invented the brass framed breech loading. Patent for Morse breech-loading firearm (Atlanta History Center)
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