Tower musket from Bunker Hill
Digital Commonwealth — Forbush Memorial Library

Tower musket from Bunker Hill

[ca. 1760–1799]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Forbush Memorial Library

Tower musket with inscribed brass plate: "This gun was taken from the side of a dead British soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill-June 17th 1775 by Elijah Gross of Scituate". There is also a bayonet.

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