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I've read a few books on Grant but can't recall if any mention his personal firearm.
Anyone... know? I can tell you what Lee carried.
Anyone... know? I can tell you what Lee carried.
I can tell you what Lee carried.
Well?
Lee owned several sidearms, apparantly a Colt Navy, and I think a Colt Root, but wore neither; they were probably safely stashed in their boxes in a trunk somewhere in the headquarters baggage wagon. Though photographed with a sword and famously wearing the English sword brought through the blockade and presented to him in 1862 "by the patriotic ladies of Baltimore" at Appomattox, he probably seldom wore those either. At Appomattox, Grant definitely was without sidearms, and it's likely he routinely neglected them also. He was photographed in 1861 holding one of the then-new M.1860 Staff-and-Field officers' swords, but I don't think he was ever subsequently photographed with it or another one.
I have a calendar on my office door at work. Weapons of the civil war. This months featered weapon is Grant's 1851. It is a cased set. It has some engraving but nothing real fancy. Kinda the way I see Grant himself.
View attachment 13758Grant's Colt 1860 Army .44
Sam Colt was never in the military.Wasn't Samuel Colt a classmate of Grant's at West Point, or have I got that wrong?
Sam Colt was never in the military.