cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9916630
This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry.
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I feel like “Lincoln’s Repeater” in Fallout 3 should have been this gun instead. I mean, I get what they were going for, but this is way cooler.
🎵 John Brown’s body lies a’mouldering in the grave
His soul is marching on 🎵
if only they’d remembered to bring the ammo their benefactors bought them
