During the Battle of Savage’s Station on June 29, 1862, Confederates captured about 2,500 wounded Union soldiers from this makeshift field hospital photographed by James F. Gibson. The fellows in the straw hats are from the 16th New York Infantry. John Magruder’s slow advance during the battle got the Confederate sent west, to the District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
– Courtesy Library of Congress –
Although El Paso, Texas’s City Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire’s favorite handguns were a pair of eight-inch barreled Smith & Wesson .44 American revolvers, he also packed a Colt 1860 Army converted by the Mason-Richards system to chamber .44 cartridges, with the barrel chopped down to around 2½ inches. Reportedly, he carried this belly gun in a special leather-lined trouser pocket.
– Courtesy Robert G. McCubbin Collection –
Tom Horn himself was the source of many of the myths that circulated about him. Yet not all of his claims were false; he was an avid rope braider (he’s shown with one of his ropes in this photo of him in the jail in Cheyenne, Wyoming). But the idea that he braided the rope that hanged him stinks of legend!
– Courtesy Robert G. McCubbin Collection –
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