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  2. Samuel Griswold - Wikipedia

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    Cullen Bohannon, the Confederate Army veteran and protagonist of AMC's Hell on Wheels, carries a Griswold revolver. That fact is established in the pilot episode and is a plot point in multiple episodes (e.g., season 3, episode 6), in which the distinctive gun is used, shown, or mentioned.

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

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    Colt's most popular revolver for the 1850s civilian market in .36 caliber. The name 'Navy' came from the cylinder of the revolvers being engraved with a scene of the victory of the Second Texas Navy at the Battle of Campeche on May 16, 1843. The preferred sidearm of the Confederacy. Copies such as the Griswold & Gunnison were made all over the ...

  4. List of Confederate arms manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Griswold & Gunnison Griswoldville, Georgia: 1862 Produced a variant of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver: 3,700 Griswold & Gunnison revolvers [2] Hodgkins Macon, Georgia, Pittsylvania, Virginia.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines 400 to 700 Hyde & Goodrich New Orleans, Louisiana: Rifles H. C. Lamb Jamestown, North Carolina

  5. LeMat Revolver - Wikipedia

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    Confederate Major General J. E. B. Stuart "was known to favor the LeMat revolver". [6] General Beauregard's personal engraved LeMat, which he carried throughout the war, is preserved at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. [7] The LeMat revolver was manufactured from 1856 to 1865, with approximately 2,900 being produced.

  6. Hell on Wheels (Hell on Wheels episode) - Wikipedia

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    Johnson responds by taking Bohannon hostage. Johnson tells Bohannon that he read of the Union soldier killed in Washington, DC by a Griswold revolver, and seeing Bohannon's Griswold when he hired him, coupled with Bohannon's mention of Meridian, confirmed his suspicions.

  7. Tranter (revolver) - Wikipedia

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    Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Hyde and Goodrich dissolved their partnership, and its successors, Thomas, Griswold & Company, and A. B. Griswold & Company, continued to distribute Tranter's guns. [6] As a reliable, functional, and proven design, Tranter revolvers soon enjoyed a great popularity among the Confederate military.

  8. Clinton-Gore Confederate flag campaign button surfaces - AOL

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    The first shows the Confederate battle flag and the second portrays Clinton and his then Vice President Al Gore in the gray uniforms of the Confederacy. They were up for bidding on eBay and listed ...

  9. Kerr's Patent Revolver - Wikipedia

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    Kerr's Patent Revolver was an unusual 5-shot single-action revolver manufactured from 1859 to 1866 by the London Armoury Company. It was used by Confederate cavalrymen during the U.S. Civil War . Seven of these revolvers were held by the New Zealand Colonial Defence Force in 1863 and were issued to the famous Forest Rangers at the start of the ...