Greatgrandad was one of five key instigators of the infamous Election Riot in Barbour County, Alabama in 1874. He and another man disarmed 18 Union soldiers guarding a polling station, and one of the old Springfields taken was hidden in the attic of my Grandfathers house when I was a kid growing up. My Grandad reared me, and the Springfield was to be passed to me.
I'm off riding Destroyers in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club, my Grandfather dies, and when I get home some months later the old Springfield was gone. No idea where....what a piece of history to be lost!
I'm off riding Destroyers in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club, my Grandfather dies, and when I get home some months later the old Springfield was gone. No idea where....what a piece of history to be lost!
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