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Well, The 2nd Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment has records of issued pinfire revolvers (See Frank Mallory's work on National Archives research published by Springfield Research Service)
And that unit fought in Oklahoma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Old_Fort_Wayne
I also have a lot of excavated pinfires from other battlefields that unit fought in in northwest Arkansas (Prairie Grove, Pea Ridge, Cane Hill, etc)
You've got one Kansas unit, and a couple Missouri units using the same French pinfire, so pinfires must've been all over the place because they've been found on CW battlefields, they must've been common.
Never mind pinfire cartridges don't show up hardly at all on stuff imported through the blockade in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi.
Never mind none of the Missouri units with them were at those battles.
Never mind in NW Arkansas with those fights the 2nd Kansas wasn't engaged as heavily as other units. (Full unit wasn't even there if I remember right. Going from memory I halfway want to say it was 1863 before they got the guns.)
Never mind in Oklahoma you had post-war fights between the Union and Confederate factions in tribes throughout the 1870's off and on. Sometimes on or near the battlefields.
Never mind that pinfires were common cheap pocket guns in the area after the war with folks shooting them on the battlefields.
Heck if I remember right there's a post-war pinfire or two in the Cane Hill Museum owned by locals after the war. But pinfire cartridges found there must be wartime.
Pinfire cartridges were found at the battlefield so MUST have been there in the war and a common side arm. That makes a LOT of sense. I've no patience to continue a discussion about how pinfires must've been a common sidearm in this medical myth thread. Especially when it seems like there's bias towards the subject on your part. Bias is a very blinding factor for every human being ever after all. Sorry if I seem like a jerk, but I've no patience for this today.