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Henry repeating rifle
Date: 1864
Henry repeating rifle by the New Haven Arms Company. Multiple historic repairs. Used by L.A. McLoughlin, one of George A. Forsythe's men, at the Battle of Beecher Island. His initials are scratched into the right side of the stock. The serial number 6913 indicates the gun was manufactured in 1864. The Henry was the forerunner of the famous Winchester repeating rifle.
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Portrait of Philip Henry Sheridan
Date: between 1870 and 1888
Miniature portrait of Philip Henry Sheridan. Watercolor on ivory, unsigned and undated. Oval portrait in a leather box. Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) graduated from West Point in 1854. He quickly rose to prominence during the Civil War, after which he was sent west by President Grant to pacify the Plains Indians. He was eventually promoted to command the Division of the Missouri (all land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains), succeeding General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Saber
Date: between 1860 and 1875
Non-regulation Civil War era officer's saber and scabbard. The base of the blade is marked "Solingen" on one side and F.A.H." [Friedrich Herder Abraham Sohn] on the other. Half-basket guard and fishskin grip. Belonged to George A. Forsythe, commander at the Battle of Beecher Island.
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Spencer carbine
Date: between 1864 and 1866
Model 1865 Spencer repeating carbine by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company of Boston. Serial number 13834. The Spencer carbine was a favorite weapon of the cavalry from the Civil War until the early 1870s. The seven-shot repeater fired a .52 caliber bullet.
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Winchester center-fire carbine
Date: between 1868 and 1869
Winchester model 1866 center-fire repeating carbine. Serial number 79311, manufactured around 1868 to 1869. Belonged to George Allen, who established a homestead for his family in 1870 about three miles west of Tescott. He used the carbine in a skirmish between eight or nine settlers and a group of Indians at a creek located approximately half a mile east of Beverly. Allen had originally acquired the Winchester from an Indian, who traded it for Allen's muzzle-loading rifle because it was too difficult for him to acquire shells for the Winchester.
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Winchester center-fire rifle
Date: 1871
Deluxe model 1866 Winchester rifle, serial number 80,362. Presented by Samuel J. Crawford to Nehemiah Green in 1871. Crawford served as Kansas Governor from 1865 to 1868. Green served as his Lieutenant Governor and eventually assumed the governorship when Crawford resigned to lead the 19th Cavalry against the Cheyenne. The receiver, butt plate, and forestock trim are gold-plated and engraved, including hunting scenes on the receiver flanks by Conrad Friedrich Ulrich. The dedication reads "Wichita, Octr. 21st 1871. To Nehemiah Green from S.J.C., in friendship and gratitude."
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