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The twin seven-shooters

Chapter 1: The Twin Seven-Shooters.
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A veteran officer recounts the life of a pair of presentation revolvers: their manufacture and gifting, use in combat, capture by the enemy, long separation, and eventual reunion after national reconciliation. The narrative interweaves close-up camp scenes, a winter march and two major engagements, personal reflections on comradeship and sacrifice, and the ceremonial presentation that anchors the memoir. Organized into a prologue, scenes of battle, presentation, capture and reunion, and an epilogue, the work blends vivid battlefield detail with artifact-centered storytelling to examine how wartime experiences endure and are reconciled in peace.

The Twin Seven-Shooters.

BY

CHARLES F. MANDERSON

LATE COLONEL 19TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, BREVET
BRIGADIER-GENERAL VOLS., U.S.A.

F. TENNYSON NEELY

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