Griswold & Gunnison Revolver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1862
name: label: maker
content: Griswold & Gunnison
notes: label: Description
content: This six-shot .36 caliber revolver was made under contract to the Confederate government. It is a brass framed copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. Connecticut Yankee Samuel Griswold set up a cotton gin factory in Georgia in 1830. The village of Griswoldville grew around the factory. In 1862, Griswold produced pikes for volunteers from the state of Georgia. The factory soon began producing revolvers for the Confederacy. No other Confederate factory produced more revolvers than Griswold & Gunnison. Griswoldville was the first town burned by Sherman's troops on his march to the sea.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia
label: place made
content: United States: Confederate States of America
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: M. B. Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.300848
label: catalog number
content: 300848
label: accession number
content: 61709
label: serial number
content: 1720
objectType: label: Object Name
content: revolver
label: Object Name
content: revolver, percussion
label: Other Terms
content: revolver; Firearms; Percussion Fire; .36 In; Rifled; Muzzle Load; 2B; Sa
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 34.29 cm x 3.81 cm