keIth A
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- Joined
- Jul 13, 2015
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
I know that several CSA officers, including JEB Stuart had these revolvers but am interested in the Union use of the 4th Model. Can anyone give me details or their use by individuals or units.
My interest in Captain Myles Keogh who served under Buford and Stoneman, in the Army of th ePotomac and the Army of the Ohio. He was identified by a Confederate soldier as holding a "custom-made English revolver" in 1865. My point is that the Tranter loading tool, aligned with the barrel, would make it distinctive and unlike contemporary American revolvers, and indeed the Le Faucheux or Le Mat pistols of the time.
My previous investigations have discovered this to be a Kerr Revolver but although I realise the Federal Army did obtain some of these, and that Tom Custer held one when he was killed at LBH in 1876, but to be using the same revolver, ten years after being seen with it (even given the poor state of the frontier army) seems unlikely. I am not convinced - yet
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here is slight evidence that Keogh carried a Webley DA (not a Bulldog) at LBH in the same engagement based on evidence of Custer receiving an RIC revolver in 1869.
My argument would be that a Confederate may know what a Kerr revolver looked like, and perhaps the more unusual Adams/Tranter revolver (or the Webley Wedge Frame) was less identifiable except as "English" and more likely as a Federal firearm.
regards
Keith
My interest in Captain Myles Keogh who served under Buford and Stoneman, in the Army of th ePotomac and the Army of the Ohio. He was identified by a Confederate soldier as holding a "custom-made English revolver" in 1865. My point is that the Tranter loading tool, aligned with the barrel, would make it distinctive and unlike contemporary American revolvers, and indeed the Le Faucheux or Le Mat pistols of the time.
My previous investigations have discovered this to be a Kerr Revolver but although I realise the Federal Army did obtain some of these, and that Tom Custer held one when he was killed at LBH in 1876, but to be using the same revolver, ten years after being seen with it (even given the poor state of the frontier army) seems unlikely. I am not convinced - yet
. here is slight evidence that Keogh carried a Webley DA (not a Bulldog) at LBH in the same engagement based on evidence of Custer receiving an RIC revolver in 1869.
My argument would be that a Confederate may know what a Kerr revolver looked like, and perhaps the more unusual Adams/Tranter revolver (or the Webley Wedge Frame) was less identifiable except as "English" and more likely as a Federal firearm.
regards
Keith
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