A Look at 2 Colt Model 1861 Revolvers Owned By Colonel Custer

By Frank Jardim

The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, exhibits a remarkable collection of famous Western firearms. This includes a cased pair of heavily engraved, gold- and silver-plated, elephant-ivory-gripped, .36-caliber Colt Model 1861 Navy revolvers believed to be owned by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. A marshal superstar in his time, Custer is remembered today mostly for dying at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 with all 210 cavalrymen from the five companies he kept under his direct command.

On that bloody day, Custer’s 7th Cavalry was vastly outnumbered, probably in the range of …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life