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  2. Colt Single Action Army - Wikipedia

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    The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun.It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U.S. Army from 1873 to 1892.

  3. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A .44 caliber revolver made for the US Cavalry to replace the heavier Colt M1848 Dragoon. The Bessemer steel process invented in the 1850s made a lighter stronger revolver in .44 caliber possible. Colt M1861 Navy revolver: Updated version of the .36 caliber Colt M1851 Navy with lines similar to the Colt M1860 Army. Colt M1862 Police revolver

  4. Cavalry draw - Wikipedia

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    Not all cavalry used this method of draw, or located their holsters on the right hand side of the body. In the "Manual of Arms for the Sharps Rifle, Colt Revolver and Swords (1861)", [1] which was used by the Union Army, the revolver would have been worn on the left side, in front of the sabre-hook. To draw the revolver, the soldiers were ...

  5. Smith & Wesson Model 1 - Wikipedia

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    The Model 1 was in popular demand with the outbreak of the American Civil War as soldiers from all ranks on both sides of the conflict made private purchases of the revolvers for self-defense, so much that orders for the Model 1 revolver outpaced the factory's production capabilities. Smith & Wesson was forced to expand into a new facility and ...

  6. Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers - Wikipedia

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    In 1860, the .36 caliber Police Pocket model was created, after lessons were learned from experimentation aimed at reducing the size of the .44 Colt Holster Pistols (i.e. large cavalry weapons), Colt took advantage of stronger mass-produced steel by rebating the frame of the Navy revolver to hold a larger-diameter 44/100-inch chambered cylinder ...

  7. Savage 1861 Navy - Wikipedia

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    Confederate States Army regiments: 34th Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, 35th Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, 11th Texas Cavalry, 7th Virginia Cavalry and the 7th Missouri Cavalry. The United States Navy also used the revolver in small numbers, but it was never widely adopted due to a lack of consistency and low quality production material/machines.

  8. Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver - Wikipedia

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    In the revolver configuration of the patented revolving mechanism, only one model of the revolver was produced. Two calibers for the revolver were: .28 and .31. [2] The production of the revolver started in 1855 and lasted until 1870. [3] In spite of the complexity and ambition of its patented design, the Sidehammer revolver never became a ...

  9. Pistoleer - Wikipedia

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    Light cavalry of the early modern period were equipped with a sabre and specialised horse pistols, carried in saddle holsters. [citation needed] These large calibre single shot handguns, also known as holster pistols, horsemen's pistols, cavalry pistols, or musket calibre pistols, saw extensive use among the British and French armies during the Napoleonic Wars. [5]