I am trying to find the owner of a side arm owned by Exum Saint, Captain, 4th IA Calvary.
Here’s what I know about the pistol:
1. The San Rafael Independent Journal reported on Dec. 9, 1969 that Winford William Saint wife, Jeraldine Saint, displayed the revolver at a Sausalito Women's Club 's show. They had no children and it is possible that it was donated to a museum. The Marin History Museum that recently is in the middle of reorganization with the sale of some of its collection. See https://www.marinhistory.org I contacted them, but got no response.
2. If the pistol went to his sister, Avice Saint in Oakland Hills, CA it might have been destroyed in a 1991 fire of her home.
3. One descendant sold some old rifles, revolvers and a sword in the 1960’s in CA, but it is not know if one of them was the pistol of Exum Saint. It might have been handed down from another ancestral line.
Where would I begin to look for this pistol if it was in any museum, or sold to a private buy?
I am not interested in buying or having it returned to a descendant. I only would like to have a photo of it to share with Exum Saint’s descendants and to post on Exum Saint’s Find a Grave Memorial that I manage at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50462652
The pistol that he used might have been cap and ball percussion sidearm is an identified Civil War Colt Model 1860 much like the one used by Pvt. John Norris at http://www.horsesoldier.com/products/identified-items/firearms/2838
This is only a wild guess about the side arm Exum Saint owned at the end of the Civil War. Need help with this.
Also I have been trying to figure out where to post Exum Saint’s account of the arrest of Alexander H. Stephens in CivilWarTalk. It’s from a Indianapolis newspaper that published it after Exum Saint’s death. It’s two and one half pages, single spaces. I have it in a pdf format. Willing to share.
Here’s what I know about the pistol:
1. The San Rafael Independent Journal reported on Dec. 9, 1969 that Winford William Saint wife, Jeraldine Saint, displayed the revolver at a Sausalito Women's Club 's show. They had no children and it is possible that it was donated to a museum. The Marin History Museum that recently is in the middle of reorganization with the sale of some of its collection. See https://www.marinhistory.org I contacted them, but got no response.
2. If the pistol went to his sister, Avice Saint in Oakland Hills, CA it might have been destroyed in a 1991 fire of her home.
3. One descendant sold some old rifles, revolvers and a sword in the 1960’s in CA, but it is not know if one of them was the pistol of Exum Saint. It might have been handed down from another ancestral line.
Where would I begin to look for this pistol if it was in any museum, or sold to a private buy?
I am not interested in buying or having it returned to a descendant. I only would like to have a photo of it to share with Exum Saint’s descendants and to post on Exum Saint’s Find a Grave Memorial that I manage at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50462652
The pistol that he used might have been cap and ball percussion sidearm is an identified Civil War Colt Model 1860 much like the one used by Pvt. John Norris at http://www.horsesoldier.com/products/identified-items/firearms/2838
This is only a wild guess about the side arm Exum Saint owned at the end of the Civil War. Need help with this.
Also I have been trying to figure out where to post Exum Saint’s account of the arrest of Alexander H. Stephens in CivilWarTalk. It’s from a Indianapolis newspaper that published it after Exum Saint’s death. It’s two and one half pages, single spaces. I have it in a pdf format. Willing to share.