Colt Second Model Dragoon Revolver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1851
name: label: associated person
content: Butler, Benjamin
label: patentee
content: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
label: maker
content: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: In total, over 19,000 six-shot .44 caliber First, Second and Third Model Colt Dragoon revolvers were produced between 1848 and 1861. Many were purchased for military issue by both the U.S. and individual state government and were used during the Civil War. This particular revolver is one of a pair owned by Benjamin F. Butler. Butler served in the Massachusetts state militia in the 1840s and 50s, and became a Major General of Volunteers in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts
topic: label: web subject
content: Firearms
label: web subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
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content: Revolvers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ames Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.79225M
label: catalog number
content: 79225M
label: accession number
content: 317939
label: serial number
content: 10603
objectType: label: Object Name
content: revolver
label: Object Name
content: revolver, percussion
label: Other Terms
content: revolver; Firearms; Percussion Fire; .44 In; Rifled; Muzzle Load; 2B; Sa
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 14 in x 1 3/4 in; 14.605 cm x 35.56 cm x 4.445 cm