Gun Review: The Casehardened, Break-Action CZ Sharp-Tail Coach Gun

By Denis Prisbey

December 28, 1861: The war to quickly send those damned Yankees home was beginning to show signs of becoming a longer struggle. Outside one small town in Kentucky, 500 Union soldiers had been watering during a break between battles. Their commander, Major Eli Murray, a Kentucky native himself, had no way of knowing that somewhere between 200 and 300 Confederate cavalrymen under the famed Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest were assembling nearby for a raid. Forrest had been on the move to support other forces elsewhere inside Kentucky when he was advised near Sacramento by a Confederate sympathizer named Mollie Morehead that there were Union troops in the area.

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