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Morgan revolver
Colt1851
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Fremont, United States
steel barrel, hammer, and cylinder; walnut wood grips on handle with brass trim and trigger guard; .36 caliber; six holes for bullets; stamped on top of barrel: ʺ--ADDRESS COL. SAM COLT NEW-YORK U.S. AMERICA --;ʺ serial number on brass plate next to trigger guard, on both sides of where barrel and cylinder are hinged, and on butt: ʺ117815;ʺ stamped on one side below cylinder: ʺCOLTS PATENT;ʺ stamped on cylinder: ʺCOLTS PATENT NO. 117815ʺ
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Details
- Title: Morgan revolver
- Creator: Colt
- Date: 1851
- Physical Location: Fremont, Ohio
- Provenance: Civil War era 1851 six-shot, .36 caliber Colt Navy revolver taken from a Confederate soldier by Union forces. According to the donor, when some of Morgan's Raiders surrendered to the 23rd O.V.I., Edwin C. Arthur, one of three brothers helped to disarm them and this was one of the revolvers captured.
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