Revolver owned by legendary WW2 General George S. Patton fetches $75,000 at auction

AP ^ | June 13, 2015 | AP

[central_va]

Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.

[RandallFlagg]

OH!!!

*drooooool*

[Kommodor]

Nice. Looks like a fine firearm.

[bajabaja]

Thanks.

He was a native Californian.

Who knew?

[hadaclueonce]

The man had class.

I miss class.

[yarddog]

Both of Patton’s Grandfathers were Confederate officers. One was a general and the other a colonel. The family moved to California after the war.

Patton’s family also often had a house guest named John S. Mosby who was one of the greatest guerrilla fighters ever.

[bajabaja]

Mosby of Mosby’s Raiders?

I was told his last words were “I guess I wasn’t good enough.”

[themidnightskulker]

http://www.pattonhq.com/homeghq.html

Patton society

[yarddog]

I think Mosby described himself as a “Partisan Ranger”.

He was definitely “good enough”. One Union general bragged about how he was going to capture Mosby. Mosby captured him while the general was sleeping. Mosby threw back the covers and slapped him on the rump with the flat of a sword.

[Little Ray]

No. A M-1873 is loaded and unloaded through a loading gate (visible in the picture). The revolver has to have a swing-out cylinder to use full or half moon clips.

[yarddog]

When Lincoln learned the General had been captured along with maybe 100 horses. He replied that he did not miss the general so much as he could make another one instantly, but the horses were a real loss.

[central_va]

Union cavalry = so bad it became the butt of jokes.

[elcid1970]

Patton carried a Remington Model 1934 .380 under his jacket. In the movie he shoots at the German bomber strafing his HQ with this gun.

He also had an issue Colt 1903 .32 general’s model with four stars on each grip panel.

[elcid1970]

No, but the Colt 1917 and Smith & Wesson 1917 in .45 ACP do.

[yarddog]

By the end of the war the Union Calvary was getting nearly s good as the Confederates.

[central_va]

Union Artillery = awesome, not a joke.

[semaj]

George Patton was also the cousin of Chester “Chesty” Puller, another Great American fighting man.

[Mariner]

The 1873 is the standard of beauty for handguns IMHO.

[bajabaja]

I didn’t make that clear. I was told that was Patton’s last words, not Mosby’s.

They had hooks into his cheek bones to deal with the spinal damage sustained in the auto accident.

Again, that is what I was told.

[yarddog]

I think Patton used a Remington model 51 in .380 in addition to a general officers model 1908 pocket Colt in .380 also.