Edged Weapons – PAMPLIN COLLECTION

Guns, spears, bows and arrows, knives, tomahawks, and cannons representing battle, the hunt, and recreation

Posted on May 15, 2020May 18, 2020

Step-brothers David Farragut and David Porter, both U.S. naval captains, worked together to capture the forts protecting New Orleans in the spring of 1862. For this immensely important Union victory early in the Civil War, Captain Farragut presented this pistol to Captain Porter. The revolver is a cased English Webley “Longspur” single action pistol engraved…

Here is an amazing opportunity to research unique documents online, available throught the efforts of the Pamplin Historical Park.

Pamplin Historical Park and the Museum of the Civil War Soldier is proud to have among our collection of artifacts and images, a large archive of documents dating from the 18th to 20th Centuries – including the famed Wiley Sword Collection which was donated in 2015. Many of those documents are too delicate for display, so to advance our mission of education and preservation we are making digital versions of these invaluable resources available to the public for use and research.