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The Colt Model 1861 Navy cap & ball.36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1861 until 1873. It incorporated the "creeping" or ratchet loading lever and round barrel of the .44-caliber Army Model of 1860 but had a barrel one half inch shorter, at 7.5 inches.
Uberti is located in Gardone V.T., a suburb of Brescia, Italy, for centuries the home to other firearm manufacturers and similar craft businesses. Independent for many years, Uberti was purchased and made into a subsidiary of Beretta Firearms and subsequently acquired by Benelli, [when?] also a member of the Beretta Holding Company. [2]
HNLMS Adolf van Nassau (1861) Adriatic (ship, 1861) French corvette Alecton; USS Alert (1861) Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky; USS Antelope (1861) Antelope (shipwreck) USS Aroostook (1861) SS Arratoon Apcar; USS Atlanta (1861)
For private owner. [131] July United Kingdom: Thompson Southwick: Dorothea: Barque: For private owner. [113] July United Kingdom: Messrs. Watson & Son Sunderland: Glance: Cutter: For private owner. [1] [113] July United Kingdom: River Clyde: Glenfallon: Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [132] July United Kingdom: John Robinson Sunderland ...
1861 Rifles (1864) Morse Augusta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina: Carbines George W. Morse Greenville, South Carolina.50 caliber breech-loading carbines 1,000 Murdoch Morrison Gun Factory Laurel Hill, North Carolina: Rifles [3] J. P. Murray Columbus, Georgia.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines Est. 1,000 Noble Bros. & Co Rome ...
"Slave Transfer Agencies" listed in an 1854 Southern business directory, including Thomas Foster in New Orleans, a C. M. Rutherford partnership, and G. M. Noel in Memphis Eyre Crowe, "Slave sale, Charleston, S.C.," published in The Illustrated London News, Nov. 29, 1856: The flag tied to a post beside the steps reads "Auction This Day by Alonzo ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
She then returned to the New York Navy Yard. Yankee left the navy yard on 26 April 1861 for duty as a dispatch and escort vessel between Annapolis, Maryland, and Havre de Grace, Maryland. On 30 April 1861, she received orders to Hampton Roads for reconnaissance duty between the Rip Raps and Cape Henry, Virginia.