At the beginning, the Japanese soldiers, who are trained by the Americans, are using American-made Model 1861 Springfield muskets and British-made Pattern 1853 Enfield muskets, no doubt surplus from the American Civil War (which ended eleven years before the beginning of the movie). At the final battle, however, the now better trained and better equipped army can be seen using Prussian-made Gewehr 1871 bolt-action Mausers, a single-shot, bolt-action, black-powder cartridge rifle. This rifle, unlike modern bolt-action rifles, had no magazine (the Model 1871/84 would add a tubular magazine). This equipment update is also reflected in the dress of the Japanese soldiers, which abandoned the American 1870s look of the first part of the movie and adopted a stern, militaristic Prussian look (dark blue blouse, white gaiters, the more military style cap of a professional army instead of a French-style kepi then used by the U.S. Army). This is because the elite Japanese units during this time were trained by Prussia, and the Model 1871 Mauser was widely exported during the 1870s-1880s and was not fully replaced even in Prussian/German service until 1889.
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