thecivilwarparlor:Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Pistol-Recent Prices at Auction for Originals: E
thecivilwarparlor:Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Pistol-Recent Prices at Auction for Originals: Extremely Rare, Expensive & Up to US $1 MillionThe percussion revolver manufactured in small numbers by a makeshift company, hastily set up in a cotton gin outside of Macon, Georgia in the early part of the Civil War is often confused with the 1860 “Colt Army” and “Navy Colt” revolvers, which were manufactured in the Union North. Once the war broke out, the CSA Army was in need of small arms, and most of the former nation’s firearms manufacturers were located in the Northern Union states. Clearly the Union had the advantage in manufacturing capacity and materials. This imbalance of production ability plagued the Confederacy to the very bitter end. Griswold and Gunnison and a handful of slaves turned out these pistols in their makeshift shop in “Griswoldville” under a contract from the CSA government. There were only some 3,600 of the Griswold & Gunnison pistols made, and many were lost and destroyed in or after the war. At one point, the Union’s infamous General Sherman burned down the Georgia factory.http://www.gunclassics.com/griswold.html -- source link