Could very well be @TNGhost. That picture is tough to pull things out of. I have a non-firing full scale replica of each but not a real fireable pistol. One of these days I'd really like to get the 1860 Army myself. I think it looks so much better than all the other Colts.
I lived in Virginia for 10-years. I'm originally from the west coast (CA) but I moved to Vermont in 1998 and lived there for 7-years. I was given a hard time about coming from VT (where I was called flatlander or lowlander even though the valley I came from in CA was at a higher elevation than Vermont's Green Mountains). When I first moved to VA and still had my VT plates on my car, a fellow would drive by the house at 5:30 each morning and honk his "Dixie" horn.
The type of idiots that annoy people in the name of the Confederacy have no Idea of the personal standards most CSA soldiers maintained much less the gentlemanly mannered officers whose statues are regarded as repugnant by unknowing idiots of a different slant. I recently had one in a pickup with a huge Confederate Naval Jack waving in the back run up behind me on the way to town. When I pulled over at the first wide spot to let him pass, he roared by me before I could pull off the 2-lane. I wondered what that idiot would think if he knew my great grandfather John Julian had served Arkansas as an irregular cavalryman, later to be formed into the 1st Ark Cavalry, Confederate. After due consideration, I decided the idiot probably didn't realize the Navy Jack wasn't the land battle flag he was trying to portray and impress people with. Much less that we, the South, -excuse me,- LOST.I lived in Virginia for 10-years. I'm originally from the west coast (CA) but I moved to Vermont in 1998 and lived there for 7-years. I was given a hard time about coming from VT (where I was called flatlander or lowlander even though the valley I came from in CA was at a higher elevation than Vermont's Green Mountains). When I first moved to VA and still had my VT plates on my car, a fellow would drive by the house at 5:30 each morning and honk his "Dixie" horn.
After living there for a few years that pretty well stopped, but I didn't find out until about a year ago, after I'd moved to Washington state, that my Great, Great, and I think one more Great Grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. Found that out because there is a record of him being incarcerated in a Union POW camp in 1865. That info would have been helpful when I lived in Virginia.
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