44-cal. revolvers. Even with the reduced cost, the Army, by the end of March 1862, had taken delivery from the Remington factory of only 7,250 .36-cal. revolvers and 850 .44-cal. Beals revolvers ...

Although Samuel Colt died in January 1862, his company found find its future by selling tens of thousands of percussion revolvers to the Union Army during the American Civil War. Samuel Colt ...

Colt died in 1862 of complications of gout ... Colt submitted the revolver to the army for testing, but it was rejected. The army wanted a more powerful cartridge and a more robust revolver ...

45-70 Gatling battery gun; an 1862 full-size.50 Gatling gun; an 1851 Colt .36 revolver that belonged to Confederate States Army Gen. John Creed Moore of 2nd Texas Infantry; a rare Colt Single ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time. Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical. Someone still had to ...