Company A was armed with Sharps carbines and Company B was armed (at least initially) with Dimick long rifles.
based on "hunter's dress" and be armed with highly accurate Plains Rifles (handmade half-stock long rifles), provided by the famed St. Louis firearms firm of Horace (H.E.) Dimick of St. Louis (a competitor of the Hawken Brothers, also of St. Louis).
The stock on hand of these gentlemen consists of every thing embraced in the paraphernalia of the sportsman- Guns, Pistols, Colt's Revolvers, Rifles, Bowie Knives, Dirks, Revolvers of different patterns, Fishing Tackle in the greatest abundance, Game Bags, etc
Horace Walpole | Horace Greeley | Horace | Horace Silver | Horace Andy | Horace Mann | Horace Mann Towner | Horace Trumbauer | Horace James | Horace Horsecollar | Horace Heidt | Horace Bushnell | Horace Plunkett | Horace Gray | Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta | Horace Brown | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure | William Horace Temple | Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet | Reginald Horace Blyth | Horace Walker | Horace Vernet | Horace Mann Jr. | Horace Lamb | Horace Howard Furness | Horace Everett Hooper | Horace Engdahl | Horace Dobbins | Horace Dimick | Horace Carpentier |