Remington Army And Navy Revolvers

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR, the United States Ordnanace Department reported it had purchased 128,575 Remington revolvers during the conflict. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871, Samual Remington acted as an agent to acquire arms for the French War Ministry. Fifteen to twenty thousand Remington New Model Army revolvers were purchased from the Ordanance Department and set to France.

Donald Ware devoted twenty-five years of research in the Ordnance Department archives, the Remington factory’s records, and Army and Navy records to assemble this detailed examination of the development and evolution of Remington revolvers from the beginning of the Civil War through the end of the Indian Wars.

In addition to information about the revolvers themselves, Ware shares tidbits that he unconvered along the way. For example, part of the equipment issued the Civil Ware soldier was a bullet mold for his revolvers, making the mold a superfluous appendage. To avoid carrying the extra weight, the mold was usually tossed away. In 1863 the Ordnance Department notified Remington there was no need to furnish molds with the revolvers and therefore saved the government eighteen cents on each revolver.

Donald L. Ware first because interested in collecting antique arms in the early 1950’s and started researching Remington handguns in the 1980’s. Don, who resides in Russelville, Arkansas, recently celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday.

448 pages, 198 halftones hardcover 978-0-8263-4280-5
Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888