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Remington .44 Army Model 1858 Percussion Revolver, Still Loaded!
My Grandfather dredged this revolver out of Chesapeake Bay in the 1980's. He identified it as a Remington 1858 Army. It was given to me a few years ago, and I put it away not thinking much of it. When I was taking documents out of the attic a saw this revolver, and took great interest in it. I did research based on what my grandfather put on the back of the mount (He used square nails from a 1700's farmhouse to make the mount). The small mount had a cut-out photo of how the gun would look new, the model, and where/how, it was found. A few of the .44 bullets are still in the revolver. This model of percussion revolver that was made from, 1861 through 1875, and was used in the civil war (Where the Civil War was fought), and in the Indian Wars (In the west). There is no solid evidence that proves it was used in the Civil War (Serial Numbers are corroded), but it is very likely that it was used in the Civil War.
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My Grandfather dredged this revolver out of Chesapeake Bay in the 1980's. He identified it as a Remington 1858 Army. It was given to me a few years ago, and I put it away not thinking much of it. When I was taking documents out of the attic a saw this revolver, and took great interest in it. I did research based on what my grandfather put on the back of the mount (He used square nails from a 1700's farmhouse to make the mount). The small mount had a cut-out photo of how the gun would look new, the model, and where/how, it was found. A few of the .44 bullets are still in the revolver. This model of percussion revolver that was made from, 1861 through 1875, and was used in the civil war (Where the Civil War was fought), and in the Indian Wars (In the west). There is no solid evidence that proves it was used in the Civil War (Serial Numbers are corroded), but it is very likely that it was used in the Civil War.
Remington Model 1858 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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