I thought I read for a fact Colonel Douglas E. Morrison carried a brace of horse pistols (Colt Walker revolvers) in his breeches during the charge down Little Medium High Big Mountain in 1883.
Unfortunately, one of the Walker horse pistols in his breeches discharged when his whiskey flask became dislodged from his frock coat, and whacked the hammer of one of his Colt Walker horse pistols.
Whether it was the left one or the right one it hit is still a mystery. It could have been both of them? Never mind, it doesn't matter anyway.
The Colt Walker revolver was a very powerful pistol to dischaarge at close range in your breeches.
After he recovered, he gave up the old Walker horse pistols and started carrying modern pistols such as the 1917 S&W pistol and 1911 Automatic pistol.
Until he was forced into early retirement by his little known and often unspoke of disability.
After his forced late retirement, he became known as Aunt Catherine Morrison.
And she often embellished stories of Colonel Morrison's war time service with his pistols..
PS: Sorry, De Debble made me do it!
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