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A 3rd cousin of mine has a rifle our G-Grandfather "Supposedly" carried through the War. It is however a half stocked, octagon barrel, percussion Hunting Rifle, not a military gun. I know that many Confederates did at least early in the war carry their own arms, perhaps this was the case here, or perhaps its just another old family tale. He served in the 45th TN infantry.
was present at the Battle of Franklin (TN) but was assigned the duty of tending to the horses so was not actually engaged in the battle. Had he of been I well might not exist at all.

Another of my G-Grandfathers served in the 4th TN Volunteer Cavalry (Starnes/McLemore). I have no idea what he was armed with. For a period of about a year the company he was in was assigned to N B Forrest. During that time he took a little ride across northern Miss & Ala which resulted in the surrender of one Abel Strait without a battle even being fought.

Stan;
Where I read about Lee having the 10-shot revolver when he surrendered was in an article about the LeMat. I have no idea if it was in anything which I still have or not. If so I have not the slightest idea where to look. It is possible I am mistaken about him "Surrendering" it, but that is how I recall it. There are of course exceptions to General Rules & if he did not surrender it, it is doubtful it would have been listed as him having it.

I'm not so sure about that, Miller. The reference to his dress sword that he carried to the surrender specifically states that Grant did not ask for it, and Lee did not surrender it.

I wonder what became of it.

SRH

Stan;
You may well be right on that. Since I don't recall the writer of this I fully realize it will have to be simply treated as Hearsay, Of this much though I am certain, the writer did say that on Lee's surrender it was recorded that he had a 10 shot revolver. Perhaps I was just assuming that he surrendered it.

I would dearly love to own that gun today.

I had a great-great grandfather who served on both sides in the Civil war. He was a recent immigrant from Wales and got caught up in the excitement after the decision of SC to succeed and enlisted either just before or just after Ft Sumter was shelled. His enlistment was for only 90 days. The State was unable to pay or for that matter properly house, equip or feed all the volunteers they had. Many were discharged, mostly the youngest from what I gathered and told they could rejoin later if the Damn Yankees caused trouble. Most of the enlistments were very short term at the start of the war.

Since there was no fighting for months after the start of he war he decided to go visit his sister who was living on the UP in Michigan. She had immigrated about five years earlier and was married with a growing family. About a year later they were raising volunteers for the war and he signed up, again but this time as a Yankee. Doubt he mentioned his previous military experience. Ended up getting elected to Sargent and rose up the ranks to Captain by the wars end.

He never spoke about the war with anyone after he returned. I guess he had a bad war. Always figured he had a pension coming from either side, depending on the outcome. He did get a minor pension from his service but only the Yankees side.

Stan,
RE Lee's dress sword is in the American Civil War museum at the Appomattox CH Military Park.
Correction - it was there three years ago, when I last visited.

The LeMat was the side arm carried by cavalryman J. E. B. Stuart.