Hiram Berdan (September 6, 1824 - March 31, 1893) was an American engineer and military officer, world renowned marksman, and guiding force behind the famed United States Sharpshooters during the American Civil War. He was the inventor of the Berdan rifle, the Berdan centerfire primer and numerous other weapons and accessories. Berdan was born in Phelps, a small village in Ontario County, New York. Wikipedia
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Hiram Berdan was a New York inventor who came to prominence in the time just before the beginning of the American Civil War (1865). At the outbreak of the war, he was recruited as an officer in the Army of the Potomac, part of the Union army of the North www.allsands.com/history/people/hiramberdanbio_zxb_gn.htm
Hiram Berdan was a talented inventor with over 30 patents to his name. These range from a collapsable life boat (a patent that was donated to a charity, and never built) to machines to automate the production of bread (these machines were used by some co www.berdansharpshooters.org/About_Us/Original/original.in...
Hiram's Story: In a day when a $300 could exonerate one from service, millionaire businessman Hiram S. Berdan looked for a way to involve himself in the Northern war effort. Berdan had the reputation of the country's finest marksman. He was also a train www.antiquetalk.com/column148.html
Hiram Berdan was a mechanical engineer who had been the top rifle shot in the country for fifteen years prior to the Civil War. Berdan recruited two regiments of sharpshooters for the Union army that were required to pass rigorous marksmanship tests. In www.picturehistory.com/product/id/3972
The guiding force behind the creation of the two regiments of United States Sharpshooters was New York inventor and crack rifleman Hiram Berdan . For a decade and a half before the war he had been the acknowledged top marksman in the country, and his inv pages.prodigy.net/richsim/berdan.htm
