Quote Originally Posted by fusilier View Post
I believe the sword is called a "briquet", and is basically the same as a "hanger". However, only the elite companies and regiments carried the sword, the line fusilier companies did not. Nevertheless, infantry carrying a short sword of some sort was pretty common well into the mid-19th century. In the 1840s the French started to issue the artillery short sword to all their infantry, you will see it in depictions of French infantry during the Crimean War (this sword is similar to the US heavy artillery short sword).

Is this the Danish infantry sword?
https://www.champagnesabling.dk/1864
Well, that's exactly how sword handles looked in the series (I cannot say about the rest of the sword because they never unsheathed them)

What is interesting is that if IMFDB is to be believed they just used Springfield replicas instead of Danish percussion muskets, but the swords they replicated right.