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100	1		_aManderson, Charles F. _q(Charles Frederick), _d1837-1911
245	1	4	_aThe twin seven-shooters
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-01
508			_achenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aThe twin seven-shooters by Charles F. Manderson is a first-person Civil War memoir written in the early 20th century. Centered on a matched pair of presentation revolvers, it blends battlefield narrative with personal reminiscence to trace how the weapons were carried, lost, and ultimately reunited, while offering vivid depictions of major Western Theater actions and a reflective argument for national reconciliation. The book opens with the pistols as keepsakes and then moves to the Army of the Cumberland’s winter march and the brutal, seesaw fighting at Stone’s River, where the narrator’s regiment charges in the cedars, withstands Breckinridge’s assault, and counts staggering losses that forge deep comradeship. In camp afterward, the men ceremonially present their colonel with the twin seven-shooters. Later, amid the siege of Chattanooga, a Confederate cavalry raid on a wagon train carrying his baggage results in the capture of the pistols; the narrator then recounts the dramatic, largely self-propelled ascent and storming of Missionary Ridge. Decades on, while serving in Washington, he recovers one revolver from a Federal officer who seized it during Reconstruction and the other from a former Confederate colonel who had carried the pair through the war. The closing epilogue uses the pistols’ reunion to frame a clear, generous call for sectional forgiveness and enduring American unity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902
653			_aUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77379
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